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Pitt Rivers Museum

1884.125.320

Stone axe


1884.125.320

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone axe
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1884
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground
Dimensions
Thick: max 26 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Length: max 82 mm, Weight 173 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.125.320
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