- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Light brown sub-rectangular polished stone axe; plano-convex, with a straight butt. [CC [Excav. PR] 05/12/2013].
- Geographical reference
- 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 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Slate Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 28 mm, Width: max 56 mm, Length: max 120 mm, Weight 292 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.242 Other numbers: 3
- 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]
1884.125.242
Stone axe
1884.125.242
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