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Garvald
Findspot, Polished Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Garvald
Classification Findspot, Polished Axehead (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Dolphinton; West Linton
Canmore ID 48849
Site Number NT04NE 45
NGR NT 098 489
NGR Description NT c. 098 489
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48849
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Linton (Tweeddale)
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT04NE 45 c. 098 489.
Listed among polished stone axes from Peeblesshire, purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1900, is an axe of indurated claystone, measuring 5 1/2 ins by 2 ins by 1 1/8 ins thick, 'from Garvald, Dolphinton'. (Accession no: AF 472) (Garvald House, at NT 098 489, is in Peeblesshire, but the nearby Garvald Burn forms the boundary between Peeblesshire and Lanarkshire for part of its length).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1900.
This axe has been petrologically attributed to group VI (artifacts of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
Sbc Note
Visibility: Not applicable. Site of an unprovenanced find.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
