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Durisdeer Parish
Axehead(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Durisdeer Parish
Classification Axehead(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 46342
Site Number NS80SE 18
NGR NS 89 03
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 18 89 03.
There are two Group VI stone axes from Durisdeer parish in Dumfries Museum (Accession nos: 1949-7 and 1965-99). The former measures 4.4 by 2.0 ins. (Durisdeer: NS 89 03). (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
R G Livens 1961; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
