- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Grey stone axe; with a rounded cutting edge and a straight flat butt, sub-oval in section. [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
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 15 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Length: max 65 mm, Weight 63 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.247 PR no.: ? 95/ 9294
- 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]. Note that the number 95/ 9294 was otherwise associated with archaoelogical objects obtained in Brittany There are no objects with the fraction number 9294 in the green book. If my theory about fraction numbers is correct [see Introduction to the Lt-Genl PR catalogue] then objects with this number should have associated dates of between March and May 1879 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.125.247
Stone axe
1884.125.247
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