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Watcarrick

Axehead (Stone)

Site Name Watcarrick

Classification Axehead (Stone)

Alternative Name(s) Blackburn Bridge

Canmore ID 67297

Site Number NY29NW 4

NGR NY 2398 9650

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Eskdalemuir
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NY29NW 4 2398 9650.

(NY 2398 9650) Stone Axe found AD 1951 (NAT)

OS 6" map (1965)

A stone axe, 6 7/8 ins long, with an oval cross-section, 3 by 1 1/2 ins, was found some 4 ft below the present surface by Andrew Graham when widening the road at Watcarrick, NE of Blackburn Bridge. It was donated to Dumfries Museum on 23rd November 1951.

A E Truckell 1953; Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1953

Mr Pringle, who was present when the find was made, indicated the approximate area of the find at NY 2398 9650 but could not be more precise. The find-spot now lies under the W side of the present road.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 3 September 1962

This axe, of (?) Group XIII type, is still in Dumfries Museum (Acc No: 1952-28). It has been thin-sectioned, the section being retained in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (DUM 8). (Group XIII comprises spotted dolerite or preselite from the Preselau Hills, Dyfed, Wales).

J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.

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