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Stirling-bridge Of Allan Road
Flanged Axehead(S) (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stirling-bridge Of Allan Road
Classification Flanged Axehead(S) (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 47116
Site Number NS89NW 13
NGR NS 80 96
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47116
- Council Stirling
- Parish Stirling
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS89NW 13 80 96.
Three bronze flanged axes, apparently all from the same mould, allegedly found when making a drain on the road between Stirling and Bridge of Allan, which were purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1885 (Accession nos: DQ 120-2) are fakes (R B K Stevenson, NMAS).
RCAHMS 1963; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1886.
Provenanced as 'Scotland (?)' and numbered 1749F (NMAS DQ 120), 1750F (DQ 121) and 1751F (DQ 122). Another group of axes appears to have been based on an Irish prototype, being possibly classified among the Irish Group A palstaves of shield pattern type. They are relatively high-flanged and more or less rhomboid, the flanges being sometimes hammered over. They have a combined bar-ledge stop with a shield on the blade below which is formed by running together the flanges on the blade. They are all identical and, like other groups of fakes, must have come from the same mould, although there are some secondary alterations, particularly to the shape of the flanges.
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
