T-shaped axe head, socket with flattened butt, shank rectangular in section tapering to blade. Socket cheeks widen beyond shank (one side preserved) but no evidence of pointed lugs as seen on other axes of the period (other side of cheeks too poorly preserved to tell). Cheeks of socket end in squared butt, meeting at neat off-centre seam, possibly overlapped & welded. The butt is depressed in centre, possibly from hammering? The blade is incomplete, curvature from shank to t-arms remains on both sides but one arm is cleanly broken off beyond this (appears to be along a weld line where steel blade fitted to shank). The other arm extends 38mm beyond equivalent weld line but full length of blade arms unknown; these may have been much longer as extent arm broken and corroded in this area. There is also a clear weld line where the steel cutting edge of the blade had been fitted.

Kirkpatrick-Juxta, DUMFRIESSHIRE

Annandale, Beattock, near Stidriggs Farm.

MEDIAEVAL

DUMFM:1989.2.10

Archaeology