Object: Halberd
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Anthropological Museum, Aberdeen University,249,Purchased 1908
Site: Scotland,Grampian (Aberdeenshire),New Machar,1908
Parish: New Machar
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: 1908
Length (mm): 284
Width (mm): 90
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 375
Associations: Found with two others, 250 and 251.
Description: With tapering midrib and three rivet holes.
Publications: S.P. O Riordain, Archaeologia, Vol. 86, 1936, p. 311, No. 7
Remarks: O Riordain Type 4,Found while making bridge over ditch on farm. All three lay together between subsoil and layer of moss about two feet thick, from over which, some years before, bank of moss about eight to ten feet thick had been removed.