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Beadle's Croft, Cruggleton
Axe Hammer (Stone)
Site Name Beadle's Croft, Cruggleton
Classification Axe Hammer (Stone)
Canmore ID 63257
Site Number NX44SE 7
NGR NX 477 428
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63257
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Sorbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX44SE 7 477 428.
A highly polished and ornamented axe-hammer, 13 3/4" X 5 1/4" X 3 1/8" was found in 1857 at the Beadle's Croft, near Cruggleton Church (NX 477 428). In 1878 it was in the possession of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, but Roe states that its location is now unknown.
P H M'Kerlie 1870; G Wilson 1878; F E S Roe 1967
