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Auldgirth Bridge
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Axe Hammer (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auldgirth Bridge
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Axe Hammer (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 65782
Site Number NX98NW 13
NGR NX 911 863
NGR Description NX c. 911 863
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65782
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmahoe
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX98NW 13 c. 911 863
An axe-hammer, 7 in by 3 1/2 in, found in December 1862, by railway surfacemen while removing a large cairn in a field near Auldgirth Bridge (NX 911 863) is in Dumfries Museum (F E S Roe 1967), having been transferred from Thornhill Museum.
W G Gibson 1864
There is no trace of this cairn and no reference to it on an estate map of 1840. The axe-hammer is still in the museum.
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975.
This Class I axe-hammer is held in Dumfries Museum under accession number DUMFM 1965/368. It has been petrologically attributed to group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
