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East Preston
Polished Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name East Preston
Classification Polished Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) East Preston Farm
Canmore ID 65345
Site Number NX95NE 15
NGR NX 968 564
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65345
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkbean
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX95NE 15 968 564
A typical Group VI (Langdale) polished stone axe, found by Alexander Murray at East Preston (NX 968 564) in November 1911, was donated to Dumfries Museum in 1913 (Accession no: 1934.5). It measures 4.0 ins by 2.3 ins. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1914; R B K Stevenson 1961; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
