The Bronze Age
Ritual
Battle-axe, Moormains
- Period:
- Bronze Age
- Description:
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This beautiful stone battle-axe from Moormains, Wigtownshire was added to the Selby Collection in 1893. The perforation or shaft-hole is incomplete.
Battle-axes, which probably had a ritual function, are rare in south-west Scotland and only four other examples are known from the Wigtownshire Machars.
- Materials/Media:
- sandstone
- Dimensions:
- length: 148mm
- Source:
- Stranraer Museum
- Accession number:
- 2004.6.16
- Digital Number:
- SRAM016n
- Creation Date:
- 200-1500BC
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
