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Pitt Rivers Museum

1884.125.224

Stone tool or weapon


1884.125.224

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool or weapon
Long description
Brown speckled stone axe; plano-convex with a rounded, chipped cutting edge and a thick rounded butt. [CC [Excav. PR] 09/12/2013]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground
Dimensions
Thick: max 35 mm, Width: max 66 mm, Length: max 84 mm, Weight 257 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.125.224 Other numbers: 6 PR Cat other PR nos: 1389? PR Cat other PR nos: 1385?
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]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Axe