Site type SOCKETED AXEHEAD (BRONZE)
Canmore ID 24683
Site Number NN70SE 24
NGR NN 78 01
Council STIRLING
Parish DUNBLANE AND LECROPT
Former Region CENTRAL
Former District STIRLING
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NN70SE 24 c. 78 01.

A late Bronze Age socketed axe, related to rectangular type, from Dunblane is now in Marieschal College Museum Aberdeen (NO247.4)
W Henderson 1938; J M Coles 1962.

(Unclassified socketed axe). Single find. Socketed axe, rough sandy surface, black, casting flaw underneath loop, untrimmed; length 74mm, mouth 28 x 30mm, cutting edge 50mm, weight 160 gms. Anthropological Museum, Aberdeen (247.4 or 247).
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.

Coles, J M (1962a) 'Scottish Late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology' Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.93
Page(s): 71

Henderson, W (1938) 'Scottish late Bronze Age axes and Swords', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.72
Page(s): 167

Schmidt and Burgess, P K and C B (1981) 'The axes of Scotland and Northern England', Prahistorische Bronzefunde, vol.9, 7 Munchen, Germany
Page(s): 251, no. 1677