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Carleton
Axe Hammer (Stone), Perforated Object (Stone), Weight (Stone)
Site Name Carleton
Classification Axe Hammer (Stone), Perforated Object (Stone), Weight (Stone)
Canmore ID 62662
Site Number NX33NE 11
NGR NX 392 379
NGR Description NX c. 392 379
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62662
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Glasserton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX33NE 11 c. 392 379.
A number of artifacts from Carleton (NX 39 38) were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1889 by Sir H E Maxwell. They comprised part of an axe-hammer (Accession no: AH 84), a perforated sandstone pebble (AO 67) and a sandstone sinker (AX 47).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889; F E S Roe 1967; NMAS 1892.
NMS AH 34 may be a Class I axe-hammer; it has been petrologically attributed to Group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern Uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
