Kilsyth, Drumtrocher Cottage
Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kilsyth, Drumtrocher Cottage
Classification Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 45900
Site Number NS77NW 33
NGR NS 716 788
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45900
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Kilsyth (North Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumbernauld And Kilsyth
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS77NW 33 716 788.
A stone axe found at NS 716 788, near Kilsyth, is in Colzium House Museum, Kilsyth. It measures 6.7 by 2.1ins. A thin section (STI 1, preserved in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow) shows that it is of a tholeiitic basalt with andesitic affinites.
R G Livens 1961.
This object has been alternatively classified as an adze. It has been petrologically identified as tholeiitic basalt.
T H Mck Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
