- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone axe
- Long description
- Black sub-oval stone axe; flat faces with a chipped butt, blade and faces. Stone appears pitted along one side. [CC [Excav. PR] 03/12/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Ireland County Cork
- 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 59 mm, Length: max 130 mm, Weight 282 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.125.339
- 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]
1884.125.339
Stone axe
1884.125.339
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