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Kirkburn
Arrowhead (Flint), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)
Site Name Kirkburn
Classification Arrowhead (Flint), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)
Canmore ID 66835
Site Number NY18SW 29
NGR NY 128 829
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66835
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Dryfesdale
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY18SW 29 128 829.
NY 128 829. The fields between the Ne/BA burial site at Kirkburn (NY18SW 16) and the ?Rinyo-Clacton enclosure at Beckton (NY18SW 13) continue to yield worked flints. The most interesting of these is a flint petit-tranchet arrowhead, 1" long, Clark class B. In Dumfries Musuem.
W F Cormack 1965
A wide scatter of lithic material recovered over a nnumber of years, possibly denoting a prehistoric settlement.
J Terry 1990.
The Dumfries Museum accession numbers for an arrowhead and several flint tools found at Kirkburn are DUMFM: 1965.46 and 1966.17 respectively.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 11 July 1995.
