Note on museum acquisitions 1972-74

Among the acquisitions noted briefly in the lists of donations to and purchases for the Museum (Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 105 (1972-4), 319-27) there are some that merit further comment or illustration.The bronze ingot (fig 1; NMAS cat no.DT 5) found in the garden of Stack House, _W 2 FIG 12 1, ingot from Gairloch; 2, brooch from North Berwick (1:2)An Ard, Gairloch, Wester Ross, NGR NG 80507517 in 1972 is of particular interest (Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 105 (1972-4), 319 no.11).This small object (98 mm long, 43 mm wide, and 7 mm thick) seemed at first sight to be another of the 'ingots' common in Ireland (Harbison 1969, 22-4) but represented in Scotland by one specimen only, an ingot of arsenical copper from near Perth

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