- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool; Thin-butted flint axe of rectangular section
- Long description
- Stone tool; Thin-butted flint axe of rectangular section, polished on all sides, skewed curve on cutting edge, mid orange colour. [MJD (Verve) 25/7/2016]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 4000-2800 BC Archaeological period: Early Neolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker [Trichterbecher], uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Material Chert Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 30 mm, Width: max 59 mm, Length 128 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.126.8 PR Cat other PR nos: 2063
- Research and responses
Unprovenanced single find. TRB EN - MN II phases. Thin-butted flint axe of rectangular section; originally polished on all sides [PW]
1884.126.8
Stone tool; Thin-butted flint axe of rectangular section
1884.126.8
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