The Iron Age
Craft and Industry
Worked Stone, Carronbridge
- Period:
- Iron Age
- Description:
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Found during a site excavation in 1989, this fragment of worked stone has a curved side with a straight edge and indentations creating a saw tooth blade. The exact usage of this object has not been determined.
- Place of Discovery:
- Carronbridge
- Materials/Media:
- stone
- Dimensions:
- length: 52 mm width: 29 mm depth: 3 mm
- Source:
- Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura
- Accession number:
- DUMFM:1995.1.71
- Digital Number:
- RPD0346
- References:
- JOHNSTON, D A "Carronbridge, Dumfries and Galloway: the excavation of Bronze Age cremations, Iron Age settlements and a Roman camp". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 124 (1994)
