Kinnesswood

NO 17 02 A flanged axehead was found by Mr J Crombie while metal detecting. Claimed as Treasure Trove and allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (TT 37/06).

T Cowie and M Hall 2006

NO 17 02 A Romano-British plain plate and fantail brooch was recovered by metal detecting.

Claimed as Treasure Trove (TT55/08) and allocated to Perth Museum

Fraser Hunter – National Museums Scotland

NO 17 02 A bronze socketed gouge and a fragment of a bronze socketed knife were found by Mr Jim Crombie during metal detecting. These objects may confidently be added to a group of finds from this location reported previously and allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (DES 2007, 166). The previous finds included fragments making up most of a leaf-shaped sword, one complete socketed axehead and the blade of a second, two socketed gouges, and part of a socketed spearhead and fragments of an incomplete disc-footed ferrule. While the original context of deposition is not entirely certain, the range of material and its retrieval

from a relatively restricted area would be in keeping with a hoard dispersed by ploughing. These and the other recent finds of Bronze Age metalwork from the immediate area of Kinnesswood Farm will be published in detail elsewhere.

T Cowie and M Hall – National Museums Scotland

NO 17 02 A bronze socketed gouge and an unidentified object (possibly part of a ferrule) were found by Mr Jim Crombie during metal detecting. The socketed gouge certainly (and the ferrule possibly, pending analysis), add to the evidence for Bronze Age activity around the NE margins of Loch Leven (cf other Kinnesswood entries). This and other recent finds of Bronze Age metalwork from the area will be published in detail elsewhere.

T Cowie and M Hall – National Museums Scotland

NO 17 02 An intact decorated bronze razor and a fragment of the blade of a further small razor or knife were found by Mr Jim Crombie during metal detecting. The intact razor is ornamented with very fine incised geometrical pattern, comparable to that on a razor found at Shanwell House, Orwell, in the 19th century (NO00NE 7). Both the complete razor and the blade fragment were found in ploughsoil. A normal association for such finds would be a cremation burial, often in a cinerary urn, particularly given the thinness and quality of decoration on the intact blade. A site visit was made to examine the findspot but no evidence of broken

sherds or cremated bone could be seen in the ploughsoil. In the absence of any immediate cause for intervention, no excavation was undertaken but the relevant areas of the field will continue to be monitored by the finder. These and other recent finds of Bronze Age metalwork from the immediate area of Kinnesswood Farm will be published in detail elsewhere.

T Cowie and M Hall – National Museums Scotland

NO 17 02 A decorated Early Bronze Age flat axehead was discovered by Mr Jim Crombie while metal detecting. This and other finds of Bronze Age metalwork from the immediate area will be published in detail elsewhere.

Claimed as treasure trove and allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (TT 57/06).

NO 17 02 Metal detecting by Mr J Crombie recovered a diversity of medieval and post-medieval personal objects and coins. The range of material recovered includes five copper alloy buckles, a lead spindle whorl, a 17th-century Dutch coin weight, a Nuremberg jetton (pierced to serve as a medallion), a cut halfpenny of Henry III, two broken quarters of a John I penny, and a Henry III penny. The most significant item is a gold finger ring of late 16th- to early 17th-century date. The flat hoop has been bent out of shape but is complete and supports a quatrefoil cusped bevel of plain form with a square set cut quartz setting with a slight bezel. The underside of the bevel is cruciform. The shoulders of the hoop are decorated with traces of white enamel. The ring weighs 3.99g; the hoop is difficult to measure because of its distortion but may be 20–25mm in diameter; the bevel

measuring 8 x 8 x 6.2mm.

Claimed as treasure trove and allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (registration number 2007.174.1-21).

NO 17 02 A group of Late Bronze Age artefacts discovered by Mr Jim Crombie during metal detecting probably represents a hoard dispersed by ploughing. The main items include fragments making up most of a leaf-shaped sword, one complete socketed axehead and the blade of a second, two socketed gouges, part of a socketed spearhead and fragments of an incomplete disc-footed ferrule. These and other recent finds of Bronze Age metalwork from the immediate area will be published in detail elsewhere.

The finds were claimed as treasure trove and allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (TT 56/06).