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Description: | Petrological sample No. 327. Found in Bramcote Hills Quary, SK 504387 in 1971. Sectioned and published by Cummins and Moore, P.P.S. 1973 serial no.327 as granodiorite. This is a course grano-diovite thick butted axehead found on the quarry syrface. L=127 mm W=59 mm thickness = 35 mm. From old card index - stone thick butted axehead of coarse quartz-diorite, grey green. Typologically Cornish. Pink plaster adhering to butt end. Well rounded section, triangular profile except for edge flats near the cutting edge. Well finished, no flake scars. Sectioned by Dr W.A.Cummins, Nott'm Univ. (serial no 327) - quarty diorite. From old card index - Bought for £5 from Mr. P.G. Eccles, 10, Yalding Drive, Wollaton, Nottingham. SK 504 387. Found in Bramcote Hills Quarry 1971. (On quarry surface, not in situ, may have been dumped there?).
Material from Bramcote also to be found at Nottingham University Archaeology Museum.
Accession number: NCM 1971-36 | Subjects: | woodworking neolithic english Nottingham and Notts. | Temporal: | 3000-2000BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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