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Priestdykes
Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Priestdykes
Classification Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 66839
Site Number NY18SW 32
NGR NY 103 813
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66839
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Lochmaben
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY18SW 32 103 813.
NY 103 813. The broken butt end of a Group VI stone axe, found 100 yds from the W bank of the River Annan, on Priestdykes farm (NY18SW 38) is held in Dumfries Museum under accession number DUMFM 1967-581. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized volcanic tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
W F Cormack 1967; J Williams 1970.
