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Skye, Roskill, Dunvegan
Socketed Axehead (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Roskill, Dunvegan
Classification Socketed Axehead (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Roskhill
Canmore ID 10840
Site Number NG24SE 11
NGR NG 28 44
NGR Description NG c. 28 44
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10840
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG24SE 11 c. 28 44
A socketed bronze axe and part of its handle of hazel, the axe being 3 7/8" long and 2 3/16" across the cutting edge, socket oval and measuring 1 3/4" and 1 5/8" in diameter. It is encircled by two narrow prominent mouldings, one at the top of the loop and the other midway between it and the mouth of the socket. When found in a peat bank at Roskill, Dunvegan, 6' below the surface, it still retained its handle, but most of it crumbled away on being lifted; the part which fitted into the socket, though shrunken, has survived; this piece measures 4 11/16" in length. Now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Edinburgh [DE 99]).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1932; J M Coles 1962.
(Socketed axe of Dowris type). Single find. Socketed axe, black, partly trimmed, cutting edge hammered, haft ribs, part of a hazelwood handle was apparently found with the axe; length 98mm, mouth 29x32mm, cutting edge 56mm, weight 250 gms.
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
