- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Grey and yellow polished stone axe; narrow with a rounded cutting edge and butt, both of which are chipped. [CC [Excav. PR] 25/11/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Ireland County Antrim Ballymena
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Polished, Process Ground, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 23 mm, Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 110 mm, Weight 138 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.587 PR Cat other PR nos: 994 PR Cat other PR nos: 1390
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object could have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.123.587
Stone axe
1884.123.587
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