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Airds Moss

Dagger (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)

Site Name Airds Moss

Classification Dagger (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 44762

Site Number NS62SW 1

NGR NS 60 24

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council East Ayrshire
  • Parish Auchinleck
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
  • Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

NS62SW 1 60 24.

An Early Bronze Age dagger from Aird's Moss (name: NS 60 24) is in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (Accession no: B.1914.318).

J M Coles 1971.

(Bronze dagger of Armorico-British A or Winterbourne Stoke type). Probably single find. Long, triangular dagger with hilt-plate and tip missing; double shallow grooves parallel to edges; flat section. Present length 19.3cm, present width 4.9cm. Hunterian Museum.

S Gerloff 1975.

Airds Moss lies on the border between the parishes of Sorn and Auchinleck.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), May 1990.

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