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Fairies' Well, Tongland
Polished Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Fairies' Well, Tongland
Classification Polished Axehead (Stone)
Canmore ID 63997
Site Number NX65NE 14
NGR NX 6696 5692
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Tongland
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX65NE 14 6696 5692.
A Neolithic Cumbrian-type polished stone axe from Tongland parish was donated to the NMAS in 1868. It measures 7 3/4" by 2 3/4". (Acc No AF 28).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1870; C I Fell 1964.
The label on this axe (NMAS exhibit) bears the almost illegible name 'Fairies' Well, Tongland', which is on the first ed. 6" map at NX 6696 5692; so it is possible that it was found in the vicinity of this well.
Information from OS Recorder (JD) 4 October 1973.
This axe 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).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
