Keir Mill
Axe Hammer
Site Name Keir Mill
Classification Axe Hammer
Canmore ID 65244
Site Number NX89SE 11
NGR NX 859 930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65244
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Keir
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX89SE 11 859 930.
A perforated sandstone axe-hammer from Keir Mill (NX 859 930), which was in Thornhill Museum in 1888, was transferred to Dumfries Museum in 1965. (TheThird Stat Account [TSA], stating that a crude stone hammer was found in a gravel pit near Keir Mill may be referring to the same item.)
J Anderson and G F Black 1888; A E Truckell 1966; F E S Roe 1967; TSA 1962.
This Class I axe-hammer is held in Dumfries Museum under accession number DUMFM 1965/369. It has been petrologically attributed to group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland) or, possibly, group XV (micaceous sub-greywacke from the southern Lake District of Cumbria).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
