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Penninghame Home Farm
Polished Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Penninghame Home Farm
Classification Polished Axehead (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Penninghame House, Home Farm; Penninghame House Policies
Canmore ID 62919
Site Number NX36NE 11
NGR NX 380 692
NGR Description NX c. 380 692
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62919
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Penninghame
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX36NE 11 c. 380 692
For Penninghame House (Penninghame Hall or Penninghame Open Prison) at NX 38425 69854 and associated buildings, see NX36NE 20.00.
A polished axe of clayslate, 4 3/8 ins in length by 2 3/4 ins across the cutting face, found on Penninghame Home Farm (NX 380 692) was donated to the NMAS by Sir Herbert Maxwell in 1905.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1905
Listed as (?) Group VI. Acc No: AF 572.
J Williams 1970
This stone axe is held in the Royal Museum of Scotland under accession number NMS AF 572. It has been attributed to group VI (objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
