Walston
Axehead (Stone), Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint)
Site Name Walston
Classification Axehead (Stone), Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint)
Canmore ID 48863
Site Number NT04NE 9
NGR NT 060 456
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48863
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Walston
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NE 9 060 456.
A broken barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, 1.5 ins by 0.9 ins, from Walston (NT 060 456) is in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (Accession no: A 118) along with a stone axe, 3.7 ins by 2.1 ins, also from Walston, which is in the Bishop Collection (Accession no: B. 1914.162).
J Anderson and G F Black 1888
Information from A S Robertson, 1951.
No further information.
Visited by OS (DWR) 19 July 1971
The dimensions of the axe noted above correspond with those of the stone axe 'found in 1894 at Walston' which was exhibited in Glasgow in 1911, on loan from L McL Mann.
Palace of History 1911