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INTRODUCTION: THE BRONZE AGE

types C and D date from the Middle Bronze Age,1 and the discovery of a steatite mould from "near Campbeltown" suggests that some have been of local manufacture, although one seems to belong to an Irish type.2 The same mould also makes provision for the casting of a leaf-shaped blade, possible a razor; a tanged razor of a type which is thought to date from about 1400 to 1000 B.C.3 was found in the cairn at Balnabraid (No. 14).
Two important deposits of bronze objects (Pl. 6A,B), which were found on the farm of Killeonan (c684188) on two separate occasions about 1884 and 1908 respectively, may have originally belonged to a single hoard. The earlier deposit comprised five swords, a chape, a spearhead and eleven flint flakes, while the second deposit consisted of the bronze prongs and butt of a fleshfork and a fragmentary sword. The swords, chape, spearhead and the fleshfork, the last of which is the only Scottish example of its class, all date to the late 18th century B.C. The other hoards of bronzes from Kintyre are either incomplete or of uncertain association.
Two pins which belong to the distinctive swan's-neck sunflower class are said to have been found near Campbeltown but no further details of their discovery have been recorded; such pins date to the late 6th and 5th centuries B.C.4

1 PSAS, xcviii (1963-4), 142.
2 Ibid., 1xxxi (1946-7), 171f., pl. xx, 1; xcvii (1963-4), 118.
3 Ibid., xcvii (1963-4), 120.
4 Ibid., xcii (1958-9), 8.


LIST OF POTTERY AND GOLD AND BRONZE OBJECTS OF THE BRONZE AGE FOUND IN KINTYRE (FIGS. 3 AND 4)

The following abbreviations are used: CM-Campbeltown Public Library and Museum; GAGM-Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum; HM- Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow; IC-Inveraray Castle Collections; NMA-National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh. In Fig.4 the classification of Bronze Age metalwork follows that adopted by Coles in PSAS, xciii (1959-60), 16ff., and xcvii (1963-4), 82ff.

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