- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Stone axe, sub-triangular with small flat lob-sided butt and rounded cutting edge. [El.B 11/09/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Ireland County Antrim
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- 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 40 mm, Width: max 82 mm, Length: max 202 mm, Weight 889 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.229 Other numbers: 21 PR Cat other PR nos: 998 PR Cat other PR nos: 1378
- 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]
1884.125.229
Stone axe
1884.125.229
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