MHG25660 - BA Socketed Axe, Warth Hill

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)

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User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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ND36NE 49 Centred 371 698

ND 37 69 NMS holds details of a private collection containing a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead said to have been found during peat cutting in 1925 below Warth Hill, John O?Groats, Caithness.
National Museum of Scotland, 1996

Possibly the same axehead as MHG13797.

Sources/Archives (1)

--- SHG1810 Text/Publication/Article: NMS. 1996. 'Warth Hill (Canisbay parish), late Bronze Age socketed axehead', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1996, p.60. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 60. p. 60.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 3709 6979 (4m by 4m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND36NE
Civil Parish	CANISBAY
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

Finds (1)

AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)

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External Links (1)

https://canmore.org.uk/site/110567 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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