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Dunscore
Axe Hammer (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunscore
Classification Axe Hammer (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kirk Of Dunscore; Dunscore Church
Canmore ID 65123
Site Number NX88SE 3
NGR NX 8666 8432
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65123
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Dunscore
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX88SE 3 8666 8432.
A greenstone axe-hammer, 10" x 4 1/2" x 3", with a half hole 2" in diameter to the outside narrowing to 1 3/8", found at Dunscore church (NX 8666 8432) was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1827 by J Grierson (Accession No AH 13)
G F Black 1890; NMAS Catalogue 1892; F E S Roe 1967
No further information
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1973.
This Class I axe-hammer has been petrologically attributed to group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
