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Auchenhessnane

Polished Axehead (Stone)

Site Name Auchenhessnane

Classification Polished Axehead (Stone)

Alternative Name(s) Carson's Park

Canmore ID 65223

Site Number NX89NW 11

NGR NX 803 968

NGR Description NX c. 803 968

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Tynron
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NX89NW 11 c. 803 968.

A polished stone axe, 4 1/2 ins by 2 1/8 ins, found on Carson's Park, Auchenhessnane (Auchenhessnane farm: NX 803 968) which was in Thornhill Museum in 1888, was transferred to Dumfries Museum in 1965.

Group VI. Accession no: 1965-97. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).

J Anderson and G F Black 1888; A E Truckell 1966; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.

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