Tibbermore
Axe Hammer, Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Tibbermore
Classification Axe Hammer, Axehead (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Tibbermuir
Canmore ID 26882
Site Number NO02SE 32
NGR NO 050 236
NGR Description NO c. 050 236
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26882
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Tibbermore
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SE 32 c. 050 236.
A stone axe from Tibbermuir (Tibbermore: NO 050 236) was an exhibit in the Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry, held in Glasgow in 1911; it was on loan from the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
Palace of History 1911.
Also from Tibbermuir come a stone axe, measuring 7 by 3 ins, and a perforated stone hammer, 6 1/2 ins long. Both are in the Smith Institute, Stirling (Accession nos 2007 and 1887 respectively).
Smith Institute 1934.
Stirling Museum A1887 has been identified as a type I axe-hammer and petrologically attributed to group XXVIIIc (coarse quartz dolerite with plagioclase laths, from various sources in Scotland and northern England).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.