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Pitt Rivers Museum

1884.125.317

Stone axe


1884.125.317

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone axe
Long description
Dark brown sub-oval polished stone axe; plano-convex with a rounded cutting edge and a chipped butt and faces. [CC [Excav. PR] 05/12/2013].
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1884
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Polished
Dimensions
Thick: max 24 mm, Width: max 54 mm, Length: max 104 mm, Weight 217 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.125.317 Other numbers: 106
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