Hayfield
Flat Axehead (Bronze)
Site Name Hayfield
Classification Flat Axehead (Bronze)
Alternative Name(s) Thornhill; Hayfield Farm; Morton
Canmore ID 67111
Site Number NY27SE 12
NGR NY 283 714
NGR Description NY c. 283 714
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67111
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkpatrick-fleming
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY27SE 12 c. 283 714.
A primitive, hammer-flanged, EBA flat bronze axe, found on Hayfield Farm, NY 283 714, c. 1880. In Dumfries Museum.
Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1936; R B K Stevenson 1949; J M Coles 1965
Enquiries at Hayfield farm proved negative. Axe in Dumfries museum.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 18 October 1967
(Flat axe of Glenalla type). Thornhill, Morton, Dumfriesshire. Single find. Flat axe, rough surface, green-brown patina, sides hammered; length 162mm, butt 23mm, cutting edge 71mm, weight 320 gms. Dumfries Mus. (1948.50).
PK Schmidt and CB Burgess 1981.
Schmidt and Burgess state no grounds for assigning this axe to a provenance of 'Thornhill'; it may have reached Dumfries Museum through the Grierson Collection at Thornhill.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 March 1990.
