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Librymoor Plantation

Findspot (20th Century), Adze (Bronze Age)

Site Name Librymoor Plantation

Classification Findspot (20th Century), Adze (Bronze Age)

Canmore ID 45518

Site Number NS71SW 5

NGR NS 717 114

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Kirkconnel
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NS71SW 5 717 114.

A cast of a Middle Bronze Age flanged adze, 5 1/8 ins long, found by a Mr Robert Sharp some years before 1928 during drainage operations near the Deil's Dyke (name: NT 717 114; Lin 535) in Kirkconnel parish, possibly from immediately beneath the Dyke (Dr A Semple) is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession no:DO 39).

J M Corrie 1930; J M Coles 1965; 1966

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