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Whitehall
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Axe Hammer (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whitehall
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Axe Hammer (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 65762
Site Number NX98NE 15
NGR NX 966 855
NGR Description NX c. 966 855
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65762
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmahoe
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX98NE 15 c. 966 855.
A stone axe-hammer, 10 3/4 in by 4 3/8 in., the haft-hole partially perforated from each face, which was found lying on a stone dyke on Whitehall Farm (NX 966 855), is in Dumfries Museum. Earlier in the Grierson Museum, Accession no. 24.
W G Gibson 1864; G F Black 1894
Some years before, a cairn had been removed from the field in which it was found.
J Williams 1965.
The axe-hammer is an unfinished example of Class I. It is held in Dumfries Museum under accession number DUMFM 1965/360, and has been petrologically attributed to group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
