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Cluny Muir
Battleaxe
Site Name Cluny Muir
Classification Battleaxe
Alternative Name(s) Thornton
Canmore ID 52895
Site Number NT29NW 5
NGR NT 248 965
NGR Description NT c. 248 965
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52895
- Council Fife
- Parish Kinglassie
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT29NW 5 c. 248 965
NT 248 965. An unfinished sandstone battle-axe found at Cluny Muir was anonymously donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1957-8. (Accession no: AH 230)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1960; F E S Roe 1966.
No further information.
Visited by OS (J P) 19 June 1974.
This battle-axe is an unfinished axample of Early form. It has not been sectioned, but has been petrologically identified as quartzite.
T H Mck Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
