- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flint axe set in handle of deer antler. [El.B 27/11/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Unknown
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- PRM source Archibald Colquhoun Bell
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1920
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Material Deer Antler Animal, Material Wax, Process Flaked, Process Glued
- Dimensions
- Length: max 119 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.91.487
- Research and responses
This tool is as likely to have been made in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]
Search terms: Reproduction, Tool, Weapon, Axe
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