Torrs
Chamfron (Period Unassigned), Drinking Horn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Torrs
Classification Chamfron (Period Unassigned), Drinking Horn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Torrs Chamfrein
Canmore ID 64630
Site Number NX76SE 19
NGR NX 780 618
NGR Description NX c. 780 618
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kelton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX76SE 19 c. 780 618.
(Approx NX 780 618). The object of Early Iron Age metalwork hitherto known as the Torrs Chamfrein was found before 1829 in a morass (presumably a peat-bog and probably a drained loch) on the farm of Torrs in the parish of Kelton - presumably in the area of marshy ground marked on the OS maps as Torrs Loch.
In its present form it is a modern fabrication from hitherto separate objects made in the same workshop in the second half of the third century BC. The cap part was probably worn on the head of a pony; the horns were probably terminals to drinking horns. It is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
R J C Atkinson and S Piggott 1955
No further information was encountered regarding the exact find-spot of this Chamfrein; but it is believed locally to have been found somewhere within the area of Torrs Loch (Mr J Smith, Nether Torrs).
Visited by OS (WDJ) 21 February 1963.
