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Golspie

Findspot, Socketed Axehead (Bronze)(Bronze Age)

Site Name Golspie

Classification Findspot, Socketed Axehead (Bronze)(Bronze Age)

Canmore ID 6566

Site Number NC80SW 15

NGR NC 83 00

NGR Description NC c. 83 00

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Golspie
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC80SW 15 c. 83 00.

A Late Bronze Age socketed axe, 5ins long, related to the rectangular type and found at Golspie (NC 83 00), is in Dunrobin Museum. It was lent by the Duke of Sutherland to the Glasgow Exhibition of 1911. (Accession no: 1865.3)

Palace of History 1911; J M Coles 1962; Information contained in TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin by A S Henshall.

The axe is on display in Dunrobin Museum.

Visited by OS (N K B) 15 June 1976.

(Socketed axe of Sompting type). Single find. Socketed axe, smooth, brown, mouth damaged, slightly pitted, untrimmed; length 130mm, mouth 26 x 27 (?) mm, cutting edge 58mm, weight 360 gms. Dunrobin Castle museum (1865.3).

P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.

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