Inglestone Rigg
Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Inglestone Rigg
Classification Axehead (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Inglestone Rig
Canmore ID 46338
Site Number NS80SE 14
NGR NS 87 04
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Durisdeer
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NS80SE 14 87 04.
A chisel-shaped sandstone axe, 5 3/4 by 2 by 5/8 ins, found at Inglestone Rigg, Durisdeer, about 1823, which was in Thornhill Museum in 1888, was transferred to Dumfries Museum in 1965. (Inglestone is at NS 869 047 and The Rig, at NS 876 042.)
J Anderson and G F Black 1888; A E Truckell 1966
Group VI. Acc No: 1965-96. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
