Sorbie Tower
Polished Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Sorbie Tower
Classification Polished Axehead (Stone)
Canmore ID 63191
Site Number NX44NE 9
NGR NX 450 470
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63191
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Sorbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX44NE 9 450 470.
A polished axe, of Westmorland stone (Group VI), found at Sorbie Tower (NX 4509 4702), which was formerly in the collection of Mr Hornel at Broughton House, Kirkcudbright, is now in Dumfries Museum (Accession no: 1961-20-3).
J M Corrie 1932; A E Truckell 1964; J Williams 1970
No further information.
Visited by OS (RD) 25 August 1970.
This axe 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.
