- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flaked axe of grey stone, with bulbous butt and rectangular edge. [El.B 08/10/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Wales Caernarfonshire Conwy Dwygyfylchi Penmaenmawr Graiglwyd [Graig Lwyd]
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1921
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1921
- Dimensions
- Length: max 130 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.89.2
- Research and responses
'...Products of the factories at Graig Lwyd, Penmaenmawr, North Wales, were transported to Wiltshire and Anglesey ...' [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 4/7/2000]
Samuel Hazzledine Warren's first report on the excavations at Graiglwyd were published in the 1919 edition of the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This article is available on JSTOR, the stable URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/2843448. Full article reference: Warren, H S. 1919. A Stone-Axe Factory at Graig-Lwyd, Penmaenmawr. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 49: pp. 342-365. [MN 06/07/2009]
Samuel Hazzledine Warren published a second report on the excavations at Graiglwyd the 1921 edition of the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This article is available on JSTOR, the stable URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/2843520. Full article reference: Warren, H S. 1921. Excavations at the Stone-Axe Factory of Graig-Lwyd, Penmaenmawr. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 51: pp. 165-199. [MN 06/07/2009]
Stone from the Neolithic Graig Lwyd axe mine is classified as being a Group VII Augite granophyre in the Table of Implement Petrology for Britain. The table is published on page 127 of a 1979 volume of papers edited by T H McK Clough and W A Cummins entitled Stone axe studies: archaeological, petrological, experimental and ethnographic. The volume is published by the Council for British Archaeology [London] and is CBA Research Report no. 23. [MN 06/07/2009]
The Graig Lwyd Axe Mine [SH 7195 7536] is recorded on the National Monuments Record of Wales under NPRN no. 407068. This record can be accessed online, see http://www.coflein.gov.uk. [MN 07/07/2009]
1921.89.2
Flaked axe of grey stone, with bulbous butt and rectangular edge. [El.B 08/10/2007]
1921.89.2
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