33023: ARDROIL, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Undated)

Summary:

FINDSPOT (Undated)
Findspot of Bronze Age cushion mace head

Location:

NB 0470 3212

Full description:

NB03SW 9 0470 3212.

NB 0470 3212 (Information from NMAS 6" record sheet) A Bronze Age (W J Gibson 1944) plano-convex polished cushion mace-head of grey and white gneiss from Ardroil was purchased for the NMAS in 1959.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1962; W J Gibson 1944.

References:

1943-4. ‘Mace-heads of “Cushion” type in Britain’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 78. 16
1959-60. ‘Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 93. 256

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.