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Findowrie
Hoard (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Findowrie
Classification Hoard (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Findowie
Canmore ID 35108
Site Number NO56SE 7
NGR NO 553 616
NGR Description NO c.553 616
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35108
- Council Angus
- Parish Brechin
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO56SE 7 c553 616
(Area: NO 553 616). Bronze socketed axe with loop - locus not known.
OS 6" map annotated by F A Ferguson, amateur archaeologist, to Ordnance Survey, January 1954.
This is presumably a mistaken reference to the Class III flanged axe and bronze dagger, reputedly part of a hoard of bronzes found at Findowie, owned by W B Carnegy-Arbuthnott, on loan to Brechin Museum. Dated to Glentrool phase.
J M Coles 1966.
Dirk with trapezoidal butt, slender blade and two rivet-holes. Length 17.1cm, width 5.4cm.
C B Burgess and S Gerloff 1981.
(Flanged axe of Findowrie type). Hoard (?). Flanged axe; length ca. 123mm, butt 27mm, cutting edge ca. 50mm.
Brechin Museum (no reg.).
P K Schmidt and CB Burgess 1981.
