- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone ?axe. Bifacially worked. [MN 13/05/2010]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1892
- Date collected
- Before 1892
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 05/1892 Exchanged: 1895, uncertain Exchanged: 1904, uncertain Exchanged: 1905, uncertain
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 28 mm, Length: max 97 mm, Width: max 183 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.22.57
- Research and responses
Notes made on the Malaysian and Myanmar collections by Dr Huw Barton, May 2010 as part of the Fell funded Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. It was noted: Stone Malaysia Box 1. Seventeen items. ... and two large irregular-shaped pieces [1892.22.56 and 1892.22.57]. The later two have been bifacially flaked around their margins and subsequently all surfaces heavily smoothed. Smoothed areas are all curved and undulating, smoothing on concave areas as well. One piece highly irregular surface also very heavily polished. The larger of the two pieces [1892.22.56] also has patches of short deep scratches; both have traces of metallic scratches on one surface (touchstones), possibly gold. ... [AS 13/07/2010; MJD 05/08/2013]
- Associated publications
- See Henry Balfour 1892 'Some Implements from the Malay Peninsula in the Pitt-Rivers Museum' in Archaeologia Oxoniensis [FK 27/04/2004]
1892.22.57
Stone ?axe. Bifacially worked. [MN 13/05/2010]
1892.22.57
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