- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe, a slightly skewed triangular shape with small pecked pits on surface. [MN 15/10/2008]
- Long description
- Stone axe, a slightly skewed triangular shape with small pecked pits on surface. The butt is rounded and the bit/blade has one chip near the edge. [MN 15/10/2008]
- 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
- Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.297 PR Cat other PR nos: 1047 PR Cat other PR nos: 1659
- Research and responses
Note that the four figure number is not given in the accession book. This object could have been obtained by Pitt Rivers during his visits to Brittany 1878 and 1879 [Bowden, 1991: 86-7][Chapman, 1981: 410-2] [Thompson, 1977: 61] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.125.297
Stone axe, a slightly skewed triangular shape with small pecked pits on surface. [MN 15/10/2008]
1884.125.297
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