- 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]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Ireland
- 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
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- 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]
1884.125.224
Stone tool or weapon
1884.125.224
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