Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (3.1976/1979)

Fig. i. The Ardnadam share drawn by Colin Hendry.
Die Schar von Ardnadam, gezeichnet von Colin Hendry.

A PLOUGHSHARE FROM ARGYLL,
SCOTLAND

By

Alexander Fenton

In the course of excavations at Ardnadam
Chapel site near Dunoon, Argyll, an iron
ploughshare was discovered. The nature of
the site is uncertain, but the excavators, mem-
bers of the Cowal Archaeological Society,
think that the levels and foundations through

which they have worked belong to an Early
Christian Monastic site.
The ploughshare (fig. 1,2) has been treated
in the Conservation Laboratory of the Na-
tional Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. It
is in a good state of preservation. The edges,