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Description: | Polished stone axe head. Neolithic 117mm length, 69mm wide, 37 thick. The style of the axehead conforms to Manbys' class 4D (Manby 1979 66-67). Oval section, rounded cutting edge which tapers down to a thin butt. Large amount of flaking scars on the sides on the last quarters of the butt and over the dorsel and ventral faces. The blade (first quarter of the axe) has been finely ground and polished, removing nearly all of the flaking scars. The dorcel and ventral faces together with but the sides have been slightly ground, but little attempt was made to remove the deep flaking scars and little attempt has been made to polish these sections. No attempt has been made to polish the butt. The blade has been reground, probably because it had blunted through use. There are very small linear scars emanating from the blade, which are probably signs of scaring from use. Very small chips are missing from across the blade. Mottled grey patina, darker and more mottled where it has been polished, light grey where it has not been polished. Similar examples have been excavated by Wheeler at Maiden Castle which date to the Neolithic (Wheeler 1943 164-165).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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