Stone axe

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone axe
Long description: Brown pitted stone axe; with a rounded lob-sided cutting edge and a rounded chipped butt. [CC [Excav. PR] 05/12/2013].
Geographical reference: Ireland, Republic of
Europe > Northern Europe > Ireland, Republic of; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground
Dimensions: Thick: max 31 mm, Width: max 48 mm, Length: max 111 mm, Weight 214 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.125.316 PR Cat other PR nos: 1157 PR Cat other PR nos: 2061
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Axe

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