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Ardendee
Axehead(S) (Stone)
Site Name Ardendee
Classification Axehead(S) (Stone)
Canmore ID 64058
Site Number NX65SE 21
NGR NX 6940 5260
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64058
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcudbright
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX65SE 21 6940 5260.
A claystone axe, 5 1/4 by 2 3/4 ins, with the cutting end fractured and imperfect, found in the garden at Ardendee (NX 6940 5260) is in Kirkcudbright Museum (Acc No 109).
J Anderson and G F Black 1888
Listed as a Group VI axe by Williams, who also notes a second axe from Ardendee (type unspecified), which is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Acc No: 1927-4045). (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
Visited by OS (EGC) 11 February 1965; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
