Bennan Millyea
Dagger(S) (Bronze)(Period Unassigned), Spearhead(S) (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bennan Millyea
Classification Dagger(S) (Bronze)(Period Unassigned), Spearhead(S) (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Glen Kens
Canmore ID 63827
Site Number NX58NW 1
NGR NX 5360 8637
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63827
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kells
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX58NW 1 5360 8637.
NX 53608637. A Middle Bronze Age spearhead (Class IV),found in clay by a farm-worker on Bennan Millyea, was submitted to Dumfries Burgh Museum in April 1967. It is in the possession of Mr Olsen of the Norwegian Shipping Line.
J Williams 1969
Two similar spearheads are on record from this approximate area. One, mentioned in 1792, and now lost, is located only to Glen Kens (NX 58 87) (R Riddell 1792). The other, which has been in Kirkcudbright Museum since at least 1887, is located to Kells (J Anderson and G F Black 1888) (Acc No 845).
Two Middle Bronze Age daggers (Group II) from Kells are also in Kirkcudbright Museum (Acc No's 844, 844A).
J M Coles 1965
