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Kirkburn
Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kirkburn
Classification Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
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.
