Inverness, Railway Station
Axehead (Jadeite), File
Site Name Inverness, Railway Station
Classification Axehead (Jadeite), File
Canmore ID 13383
Site Number NH64NE 31
NGR NH 668 455
NGR Description NH c. 668 455
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 31 c. 668 455
Area NH 668 455. A neolithic file or polisher, and the top of a polished stone axe, found when digging the foundations of a railway stores building at Inverness, is in Inverness Museum (no accession no.).
Visited by OS (J L D) 31 March 1960.
Analysis of a thin section of this axe fragment shows that it is of jadeite. It is probably of Campbell Smith's Type Ia. In Inverness Public Library.
D V Clarke 1969; W C Smith 1974.
