Find Spot record 237 - BRAGAR, LEWIS

Summary

Findspot of porcellanite axe

Location

Grid reference NB 28000 48000 (point)
Map sheet NB24NE
Island Lewis
Parish BARVAS, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NB24NE 5 28 48.

(NB 28 48) "Axe of indurated claystone, imperfect at the butt, 3 3/8 ins in length by 1 3/4 ins in breadth at the cutting edge; sub-conical shorl of micaceous schist, 1 1/2 ins in diameter: both found some 300 yards distant from the kitchen-midden at Bragar (NB24NE 4 ) and same distance from the beach", given to NMAS by Murdo Morrison, Corresponding Member. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1917.

Mr Morrison is dead. No further information.
Visited by OS (R L) 17 June 1969.

This axe is held in the Royal Museum of Scotland under accession number HR 634. It has been petrologically attributed to group IX (porcellanite from Tievebulliagh and Rathlin, Northern Ireland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.


PSAS, 1916-17, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 176 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10775.

T H McK and W A Clough and Cum, 1988, 'Lists of identifications', 238, no. LWS 2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE21334.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1916-17. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 51. 10-15,29-30,98-9,128-9,17. 176.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: T H McK and W A Clough and Cum. 1988. 'Lists of identifications'. 141-264. 238, no. LWS 2.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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