The Selby collection includes a number of stone axes from Wigtownshire. This example was found by a girl named Thomson when thinning turnips at Auchingallie, Mochrum in 1908. Many of the items in the Selby Collection were casual finds made by local farmworkers.
This is a superb and very large example of a stone axe from the Langdale axe workshops in Cumbria. Most of the stone axes in south-west Scotland were made in Cumbria.