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CIRCA 1400 B.C.
Details
A BRITISH BRONZE AGE COPPER ALLOY FLANGED AXEHEAD
CIRCA 1400 B.C.
With deeply curved blade, 5.7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) long; a Neolithic polished dark grey stone fragmentary axehead with pointed butt, blade missing, 6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) long; a white stone axehead with narrow butt, 7.7/8 in. (20 cm.) long; another grey stone polished axehead with pointed butt and curved blade, 5.5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) long, all 3rd millennium B.C.; a later spinning whorl, 1.1/8 in. (3 cm.) diam.; a bronze alloy ball, 2 in. (5.1 cm.) diam.; and a hinged iron anklet with key hole, 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long (7)
CIRCA 1400 B.C.
With deeply curved blade, 5.7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) long; a Neolithic polished dark grey stone fragmentary axehead with pointed butt, blade missing, 6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) long; a white stone axehead with narrow butt, 7.7/8 in. (20 cm.) long; another grey stone polished axehead with pointed butt and curved blade, 5.5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) long, all 3rd millennium B.C.; a later spinning whorl, 1.1/8 in. (3 cm.) diam.; a bronze alloy ball, 2 in. (5.1 cm.) diam.; and a hinged iron anklet with key hole, 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long (7)
Provenance
All the items have ink inscribed labels:
Item one (bronze axehead): "Found on the farm of South Cowshaw, Tinwald, about 1849". Rutherford Collection. This axehead was shown to the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society in October 1884.
Item two (stone axehead): "Found at Ferneycleuch, Tinwald, 1880". Rutherford Collection. Also shown to the Dumfries & Galloway Society.
Item three (stone axehead): "Found at Whitehill Kirk..., 1876". Rutherford Collection.
Item four (stone axehead): "Found on the farm at Hightown, Tinwald, 1893".
Item five (spinning whorl): "Found on the farm of Lochtank New Abbey by Mr Gray, 1895".
Item six (ball): "Found in Tinwald moat, 1880".
Item seven (anklet): "Found South Park...".
Item one (bronze axehead): "Found on the farm of South Cowshaw, Tinwald, about 1849". Rutherford Collection. This axehead was shown to the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society in October 1884.
Item two (stone axehead): "Found at Ferneycleuch, Tinwald, 1880". Rutherford Collection. Also shown to the Dumfries & Galloway Society.
Item three (stone axehead): "Found at Whitehill Kirk..., 1876". Rutherford Collection.
Item four (stone axehead): "Found on the farm at Hightown, Tinwald, 1893".
Item five (spinning whorl): "Found on the farm of Lochtank New Abbey by Mr Gray, 1895".
Item six (ball): "Found in Tinwald moat, 1880".
Item seven (anklet): "Found South Park...".