- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Sub oval, dark grey polished stone axe, the butt is chipped. [CC [Excav. PR] 12/11/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Ireland County Antrim Duneane Toome River Bann
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector William Arthurs
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Slate Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 23 mm, Width: max 52 mm, Length: max 117 mm, Weight 229 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.187 Other numbers: 24 PR Cat other PR nos: ? 2258
- 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]
1884.125.187
Stone axe
1884.125.187
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