Stone axe with wooden haft

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone axe with wooden haft
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland County Antrim Carrickfergus
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected: 1864 July
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Material Wood Plant, Process Flaked, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Diameter: max 40 mm, Width 78 mm, Length 80 mm, Length 70 mm, Length 80 mm, Length 63 mm, Length 180 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.123.912.1 Accession number: 1884.123.912.2 Accession number: 1884.123.912.3 Accession number: 1884.123.912.4 Accession number: 1884.123.912.5 PR Cat other PR nos: 3531
Research and responses: Date-sampled by Drs Gabriel Cooney and Steven Mandal of the Department of Archaeology, University College, Dublin on 9 October 1996 as part of the Irish Stone Axe Project (see correspondence in loan file). [JC; 1 10 1999].
It is quite likely that this entry matches an entry on pages 125 - 127 of Delivery Catalogue I where there are several unmatched entries for such objects [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
The axe was collected during the period in which PR was stationed in Ireland.
Associated publications: Reproduced in black and white as figure 6 on page 8 in Ulster (Regional Archaeologies), by Laurence Flanagan (London: Heinemann Educational books, 1970). [JC].

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Axe

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