Kidsdale

NX43NW 6 432 366.

(NX 4326 3669) Celt found (NAT)

OS 6" map (1957)

(First published in 1909. No ONB available.)

There are a number of references to items found on Kidsdale farm (on which this find-spot is situated):

(a) A Group VI stone axe, purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1902 (Accession no: AF 515).

(b) A Group VI stone axe, in Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum (Accession no: 1955-96my).

(c) A stone battle-axe, in Whithorn Museum.

(d) A cast of a stone hammer was donated to the NMAS in 1923 by L M Mann (Acc No: AK 212).

(e) Two indented pebbles, donated to the NMAS in 1889 by Sir H Maxwell, along with a socket stone (Acc Nos AM 39, AM 43 and AW 46 respectively). (f) A sandstone pebble, with a hollow on one side, also donated to the NMAS by Sir H Maxwell (Acc No: BG 92). It is not known which, if any, of these is the 'celt' referred to. (Kidsdale farm is at NX 432 365)

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889; 1902; 1923; NMAS 1892; F E S Roe 1966; J Williams 1970.

(WIG 14). The axe that is held in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum under accession number GAGM '55-96my has been petrologically attributed to group VI (objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).

(WIG 51). The axe that is held in the Royal Museum of Scotland under accession number NMS AF 515 has also been petrologically attributed to group VI.

(WIG 136). Held in Whithorn Museum (under accession number A.) there is a Class I axe-hammer from Kidsdale. It has been petrologically attributed to group XXVIIg (garnetiferous greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland).

(WIG 150). The unfinished battle-axe that is held in Whithorn Museum under accession number A.1 has been classified as an Early variant and petrologically identified as tonalite.

T H Mck Clough and W A Cummins 1988.