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MHG2870 - Barbed and Tanged Arrowheads - Moy (Moray not Inverness)

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Two barbed and tanged arrowheads from Moy. It was later made clear that these were from Moy, Moray, not Moy, Inverness.

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Two barbed and tanged arrowheads from 'Moy, Inverness-shire' are in RMS(NMAS) (Acc Nos AD 568, 569).
NMAS 1892.

Reference to the original notice of donation of these arrowheads makes it clear that they came from Moy, Morayshire - see NJ05NW 80 (HES Canmore link below).

Two leaf-shaped, and two barbed-and-tanged flint arrowheads, 'found in the sandhills at Moy (Moy House: NJ 015 599), in the neighbourhood of Forres' were donated to the Royal Museum of Scotland (RMS, formerly the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]) in 1860 by Miss Sophia Cumming. Only the two latter, listed as from 'Moy, Inverness-shire', appear in the Catalogue (Accession nos: AD 568, 569).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1862; NMAS 1892.

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7600 3400 (4m by 4m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH73SE
Civil Parish	MOY AND DALAROSSIE
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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