Find Spot record MHG2912 - Findspot, Cantraywood
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred NH 7800 4699 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NH74NE |
Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
Civil Parish | CROY AND DALCROSS |
Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Full Description
A stone implement was turned up in trenching ground in Cantray Wood which, until 20 - 25 years ago, had been under fir-wood for 60 - 70 years ago. The implement is of local polished micaceous gneiss originally 13ins long but now 9ins long - a part having been broken and lost by the finder - by 4 1/2ins broad by 1 1/2ins maximum thick. The edges and rounded point are sharp.
Joseph Anderson suggested it might be part of a primitive plough. Fraser suggests its use as a spade on sandy, light soil but because of its unchipped state discountenances the idea that it was the point of a cas-chrom.
J Fraser 1898. (Inverness FC Vol IV p 177 - HAW 9.2002)
There is no local knowledge of this stone implement.
Visited by OS (N K B) 12 August 1964.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG1174 Text/Publication/Article: Fraser, J. 1898. 'Note on stone implement found in parish of Croy', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 4 1888-95, p.177-80. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 177-80. 177-80; illust..
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Protected Status/Designation
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM