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1 SAFAP Allocation Meeting Notification **IMPORTANT INFORMATION. PLEASE READ FOLLOWING CAREFULLY** SCOTTISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS ALLOCATION PANEL (SAFAP) Forthcoming meeting of Friday 24 th March 2017 The below Treasure Trove cases from your collecting area which will come before the Panel at its next meeting. Should you wish to apply for any of these cases, please do so no later than: Friday 10 th March 2017 Case reports are attached and reports for excavation assemblages are available on request. Any pending reports to be completed by specialists will be sent out as soon as possible. If you do not wish to apply for any Treasure Trove cases please inform us as soon as possible so alternative arrangements can be made to facilitate allocation to other museums or institutions. Please submit your applications by to: and please also cc. Please note that as of the Code of Practice revision in July 2014 there are new forms to apply for Treasure Trove material. If you have filled in a Standing Profile then please use the Simplified Application. If you have not logged a Standing Profile (and you do not intend to) then please fill in the Standard Application. All forms and the general caselist are available on our website: Code of Practice: Chance finds: Ex gratia payments - Museums which are allocated material are obliged to finance the ex gratia payment which finders of objects are awarded under the Treasure Trove system. Chance finds are securely stored with the Treasure Trove Unit. Once allocation has been processed please arrange with the TTU to collect any allocated objects. Excavation Assemblages - Excavation assemblages are not held by the TTU but are retained by the excavator until allocation. The delivery of allocated assemblages to a museum should be arranged between the excavator and museum and is not facilitated by the TTU. For all queries regarding the role of museums in the process please refer to the Code of Practice which can be found on the Treasure Trove website (address above). For all enquires please info@treasuretrovescotland.co.uk Funding applications We recommend that the process of grant applications, or initial communications with NFA, Art Fund, etc, proceed as soon as possible and prior to formal allocation. If you require any assistance or further information please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to advise.

2 TT No Description Local Authority TT.188/16 Late Bronze Age Socketed Axehead, Aberdeenshire Lonmay TT.251/16 Lithic Assemblage, Durris Aberdeenshire TT.181/16 Three Medieval Objects, Oathlaw Angus TT.183/16 Medieval Harness Decoration Tannadice Angus TT.194/16 TT.197/16 Romano-British Wirral-Type Bar Brooch, Romano-British Trumpet Brooch, Angus Angus TT.206/16 Medieval And Later Assemblage, Usan Angus TT.207/16 Early Medieval Silver Gilt Ring Bezel, Angus TT.218/16 Stone Spindle Whorl, Middlebie Dumfries & Galloway TT.249/16 Earl Modern Lead District Seal, Kirkintilloch East Dunbartonshire TT.250/16 Romanesque Zoomorphic Pin, Tyninghame East Lothian TT.185/16 Bronze Age Axehead Fragment, East Renfrewshire Eaglesham TT.176/16 Medieval/Early Modern Silver Dress Fife Accessory, Kirkcaldy TT.189/16 Bronze Age Flat Axehead Fragment, Fife Cardenden TT.195/16 Romano-British Trumpet Brooch, Dairsie Fife TT.200/16 Middle Bronze Age Chisel/Axehead Fife Fragment, Dunfermline TT.211/16 Late Medieval/Early Modern Gold Finger Ring, Kingsbarns Fife TT.229/16 Fragment of Roman silver, Dairsie Fife TT.252/16 Silver ingot, Kingsbarns Fife TT.179/16 Silver Pin From Highland Brooch, Muir of Highland Ord TT.187/16 Early Bronze Age Flat Axehead, Evanton Highland TT.192/16 Bronze Age Barbed & Tanged Arrowhead, Highland Fiskavaig TT.193/16 Steatite Spindle Whorl, Auldearn Highland TT.199/16 Late Bronze Age Gold Penannular Ring, Cromarty Highland

3 TT.201/16 17th Century Coin Hoard, Bonar Bridge Highland TT.204/16 Post- Medieval Seal Matrix, Castle Stuart Highland TT.214/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, Muir of Ord Highland TT.215/16 Napoleonic Shoulder Belt Plate, Muir of Highland Ord TT.216/16 Medieval or Later Brooch Pin, Evanton Highland TT.219/16 Medieval Annular Brooch, Whitebridge Highland TT.220/16 Two Post-Medieval Military Artefacts, Highland Whitebridge TT.221/16 Medieval Annular Brooch, Castle Stuart Highland TT.222/16 Napoleonic Military Button, Culbokie Highland TT.223/16 Fragment Of Annular Brooch, Culbokie Highland TT.175/16 Medieval Annular Brooch, Nine Mile Burn Midlothian TT.217/16 Assemblage Of Medieval Spindle Whorls, Midlothian Temple TT.230/16 Medieval harness mount, Urquhart Moray TT.231/16 Medieval seal matrix, Duffus Moray TT.232/16 Three medieval & later finds, Covesea Moray TT.233/16 Medieval & later assemblage, Duffus Moray TT.234/16 Medieval & later assemblage, Elgin Moray TT.235/16 Medieval & later assemblage, Spynie Moray TT.210/16 17 th century Coin Forgery, Chapelhall North Lanarkshire TT.174/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, Scone Perth & Kinross TT.178/16 Medieval Heraldic Mount, Burrelton Perth & Kinross TT.180/16 Prehistoric Stone Pestle, Dunning Perth & Kinross TT.182/16 Medieval Harness Pendant, Rait Perth & Kinross TT.184/16 2 Early Bronze Age Flat Axeheads, Errol Perth & Kinross TT.208/16 Medieval Papal Bulla, Abernethy Perth & Kinross TT.209/16 Post-Medieval Lead Mould And Casting, Perth & Kinross Crieff TT.213/16 Romano-British Trumpet Brooch, Loch Perth & Kinross Leven TT.196/16 Romano-British Bow Brooch, Crieff Perth and Kinross TT.177/16 Medieval Silver Brooch, Drumelzier Scottish Borders TT.186/16 Bronze Age Spearhead, Leadburn Scottish Borders TT.190/16 2 Fragments Bronze Age Metalwork, Scottish Borders Hawick TT.191/16 Bronze Age Spearhead, Ayton Scottish Borders TT.198/16 Early Bronze Age Flat Axehead, Hawick Scottish Borders

4 TT.202/16 Prehistoric Stone Cobble Tool, Newstead Scottish Borders TT.203/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, Duns Scottish Borders TT.212/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, Earlston Scottish Borders TT.253/16 Assemblage of Roman objects, Melrose Scottish Borders TT.254/16 Fragment of Late Bronze Age axehead, Scottish Borders Melrose TT.255/16 Assemblage of Roman/Iron Age objects, Scottish Borders Hawick TT.205/16 Two Early Historic Mounts, Sumburgh Shetland Excavation Assemblages TT. No Description Local Authority TT.242/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas Aberdeenshire 12), Kintore TT.243/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas Aberdeenshire 20), Stonehaven TT.244/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas Aberdeenshire 28), Mintlaw TT.245/16 Bronze Age To Medieval Excavation (Mas Aberdeenshire 35), Inverurie TT.246/16 Early Neolithic Excavation Assemblage (Mas Aberdeenshire ), Kintore TT.248/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas Aberdeenshire 37), Kintore TT.225/16 Post-medieval to modern excavation assemblage City of Edinburgh (GORE14), Gorgie Roa TT.226/16 Medieval to Modern excavation assemblage (LBFE14), Lochrin Basin City of Edinburgh TT.227/16 Old High School, Edinburgh (OHSE12) City of Edinburgh TT.228/16 Medieval to Modern excavation assemblage Dumfries & Galloway (WHCE08), Whithorn TT.256/16 Roman Excavation Assemblage, Birrens Dumfries & Galloway TT.247/16 Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage (Mas Moray ), Urquhart TT.236/16 Early Neolithic Excavation Assemblage, Biggar

5 TT.237/16 TT.238/16 TT.239/16 TT.240/16 TT.241/16 TT.224/16 18th-19th Century Excavation Assemblage, Daer Reservoir Reservoir Valley Resevoir Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage, Cowgill Glen Medieval to Modern excavation assemblage (GHSS08), Glenbervie House Stirling

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