Object: Halberd
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Anthropological Museum, Aberdeen University,251,Purchased 1908
Site: Scotland,Grampion (Aberdeenshire),New Machar,1908
Parish: New Machar
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: 1908
Length (mm): 227
Width (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 147
Associations: Found with two others, 249 and 250.
Description: Very imperfect specimen.
Publications: S.P.O Riordain, Archaeologia, Vol. 86, 1936, p. 311, No. 9
Remarks: 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 eight to ten feet thick had been removed.