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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
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.
