Arbrack
Axehead(S) (Stone)
Site Name Arbrack
Classification Axehead(S) (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Leiblands
Canmore ID 63071
Site Number NX43NE 17
NGR NX 451 372
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Glasserton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX43NE 17 451 372.
Seven stone axes from Arbrack (NX 451 372) are listed: Six are Group VI; of these, four are in Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum (Accession nos: 1955-96ms; 1955-96nf; 1955-96ni; 1955-96nm) while the other two are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) (Accession nos: AF 328; AF 627). The seventh axe (?) Group VI is also in the NMAS (Acc No: AF 337).
J Williams 1970; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889; C I Fell 1964
An additional two Group VI stone axes, in Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum, are listed: (Acc No: 1955-96ml) 'from Leiblands, Arbrack', and (1955-96 mm) 'from Arbrack'. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria). The axe that is held under accession number GAGM 1956-96ms is petrologically unidentified.
P R Ritchie and J G Scott TS., 1981 (Nos WIG 3-4); T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
