Kelso

A nineteenth century record of the collection of Kelso Museum mentions an axe-hammer found in Kelso. The axe-hammer is described as being fashioned from 'greenstone', a term once used to describe a variety of hard, dark-green volcanic rocks, and is said to show evidence of decoration along its sides. Artefacts like this are believed to date to the Early Bronze Age.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NT73SW 23 c. 72 34

A ceremonial battle-axe, characteristic of a distinctive type evolved in northern Yorkshire in a culture similar to and contemporary with the Wessex Bronze Age, has been found at Kelso.

RCAHMS 1956.

In Royal Museum of Scotland, Accession No.L.1933.2104. Formerly in Kelso Museum.

F E S Roe 1966.

This battle-axe is of Intermediate-Developed form and has been petrologically attributed to group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland).

T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.