- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Grey sub-triangular stone axe; with a rounded lob-sided cutting edge and a rounded butt. [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
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 23 mm, Width: max 52 mm, Length: max 74 mm, Weight 109 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.319
- 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]
1884.125.319
Stone axe
1884.125.319
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