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Overhill

Leaf Arrowhead(S) (Flint)

Site Name Overhill

Classification Leaf Arrowhead(S) (Flint)

Alternative Name(s) Overhill Of Blackford

Canmore ID 18256

Site Number NJ63SE 21

NGR NJ 686 348

NGR Description NJ c. 686 348

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Auchterless
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ63SE 21 c. 686 348.

In Inverurie Museum are 2 leaf-shaped flint arrowheads (Accession no. AD 206, 207) found in 1897 at Overhill of Blackford, Auchterless (NJ 68 34). Part of the John Kerr collection.

Visited by OS (AA) 21 February 1969; Information from Accession Register Inverurie Museum.

(Name cited as Overhill of Blackford and location as NJ c. 68 34).

NMRS, MS/712/63.

The collection of Inverurie Museum has been re-catalogued, but the new catalogue is incomplete and there is no easy system of identifying the new accession numbers of these arrowheads.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 7 June 2001.

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