Maxwellfield
Polished Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Maxwellfield
Classification Polished Axehead (Stone)
Canmore ID 65378
Site Number NX95NE 9
NGR NX 976 569
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65378
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkbean
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX95NE 9 976 569
NX 976 569. A small Group VI (Langdale) polished stone axe, ploughed up in March 1969 on Maxwellfield farm, is in Dumfries Museum (Accession no: 1969-121).
A E Truckell 1969; J Williams 1970.
This axe has been re-ground. It has been petrologically attributed to group VI (objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
