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Colpy Farm
Axehead(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Bead (Glass)(Period Unassigned), Knife (Flint)(Period Unassigned), Spindle Whorl(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Colpy Farm
Classification Axehead(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Bead (Glass)(Period Unassigned), Knife (Flint)(Period Unassigned), Spindle Whorl(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18284
Site Number NJ63SW 20
NGR NJ 639 327
NGR Description NJ c. 639 327
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18284
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Culsalmond
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ63SW 20 c. 639 327
See also NJ63SW 11, NJ63SW 21, NJ63SW 22, NJ63SW 218.
A flint axe and three stone axes (apart from NJ63SW 11) now in the Callander (1917) collection, were found on the farm of Colpy (NJ 63 32).
J G Callander 1917.
No further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 24 February 1969.
(Reclassified as Flint Knife; Stone Axes; Spindle Whorls; Glass Bead). There are a flint knife, four stone axes, seven spindle whorls, and a glass bead from Colpy Farm in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen. They are:
Flint Knife ABDUA: 14614.
Stone axes
ABDUA: 19866. Sandstone axe with a narrow butt.
ABDUA: 19902. Granite axe 85mm in length by 59mm in width.
ABDUA: 15582. Granite axe with rounded butt.
ABDUA: 16045. Stone axe 129mm in length with rounded butt.
Spindle whorls
ABDUA: 19188. Possible schist whorl 61mm in diameter by 7mm in thickness.
ABDUA: 19254. Oval stone whorl up to 56mm in diameter by 7mm in thickness.
ABDUA: 19386. Slate whorl 102mm in diameter by 19mm in thickness.
ABDUA: 19543. Slate whorl 111mm in diameter by 21mm in thickness.
ABDUA: 19091. Stone whorl 38.5mm in diameter by 14mm in thickness.
ABDUA: 19372. Schist whorl measuring 59mm in diameter by 10mm in thickness.
ABDUA: 19396. Whorl measuring 55mm in diameter by 15mm in thickness.
Glass Bead
ABDUA: 15506. Blue and white glass.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 10 July 2000.
