The Bronze Age
Ritual
Battle-axe, Cairnderry
- Period:
- Bronze Age
- Description:
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A beautifully finished polished stone battle-axe. It is complete with squared-off butt, slightly expanded and blunt blade, dished upper and lower surfaces, and a central perforation that has been drilled from both ends. It is made from locally occuring granite.
The battle-axe was found together with a collared urn, an accessory vessel (see SMAH 018 and 019) and a human cremation in a pit that had been dug against the outer edge of the cairn.
The site was excavated between 2002 and 2004.
- Place of Discovery:
- Cairnderry chambered tomb
- Materials/Media:
- Granite
- Dimensions:
- Length: 128mm
- Source:
- Stranraer Museum
- Accession number:
- WIWMS 2008.24.5
- Digital Number:
- SMAH 020
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
- References:
- Cummings, V. & Fowler, C. 2007. From Cairn to Cemetery. BAR British Series 434.
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