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Kirkconnell Moss
Armour (Period Unassigned), Rapier (Bronze)(Period Unassigned), Sword(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kirkconnell Moss
Classification Armour (Period Unassigned), Rapier (Bronze)(Period Unassigned), Sword(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kirkconnel Estate; New Abbey; Newabbey
Canmore ID 65453
Site Number NX96NE 5
NGR NX 98 69
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65453
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Troqueer (Kirkcudbrightshire)
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX96NE 5 unlocated.
Several old swords and portions of armour that had been found in Kirkconnell Moss, are now at Kirkconnell. J M Corrie implies that these above include two bronze swords 15 and 24 ins. long, from Kirkconnell Park, which were found in 1784.
J M Corrie 1930
There is a native British LBA bronze sword, possibly from New Abbey in the Dumfries Museum.
J M Coles 1962
No knowledge of a collection of old swords and armour was found at Kirkconnell. In Dumfries Museum are two bronze swords from New Abbey which, Mr A E Truckell Curator, states are the same two swords
described by Corrie, and one of these (24" long) is that described by Coles.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 9 July 1964.
(Rapier of Keelogue type). According to Dumfries Museum records, this blade was found on the Kirkconnell Estate in Troqueer Parish in the 1770's; according to S. Maxwell it is unprovenanced. Rapier with low, rounded trapezoidal butt having two torn rivet-holes; brown and black water patina with much pitting, gold where worn. Length 38cm, width 5.2cm. Mus. Dumfries (1950.37), formerly in private collection at Kirkconnell House.
C B Burgess and S Gerloff 1981.
