- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Ground and polished stone axe with small chips to the blade edge. Glue adheres to one surface indicating it was probably mounted on a board. [CG [Excav. PR] 17/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Unknown
- 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
- Materials and processes
- Material Basalt Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Length: max 147 mm, Length x Width: max 64 x 38 mm, Weight 568 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.301 Other numbers: 998S PR Cat other PR nos: 998a PR Cat other PR nos: 1379
- Research and responses
This tool is as likely to have been made in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]
1884.125.301
Stone axe
1884.125.301
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