- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Dark grey mottled polished stone axe; with rounded cutting edge and but, both slightly chipped; oval in section. [CC [Excav. PR] 03/12/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Ireland County Cork
- 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 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 35 mm, Width: max 57 mm, Length: max 118 mm, Weight 381 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.596
- 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]
1884.123.596
Stone axe
1884.123.596
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