|
Date: |
|
Description: | A polished stone axe dating to the Neolithic period. The axe is made from a pale grey flint with dark grey-blue mottling. The butt of the axe is damaged and there is a small chip from the blade edge. The axe measures 155mm in length, 67mm in width and 35mm in thickness. It is a lenticular with facetted sides type (Field, D. and Woolley, A.R. 1984 'Neolithic and Bronze Age ground stone implements' from Surrey: morphology, petrology and distribution. Surrey Archaeological Collective Volume 75 p,85-109). Butler (Butler, C. 2005 Prehistoric Flintwork Tempus, p.142) describes the polishing process as being a potentially long process, using sandstone, possibly with water and sand, to smooth the surface. The axe would have originally been mounted onto a wooden handle and held in place by leather and fibre thongs (Butler, 2005: 142).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
Axe
A polished stone axe dating…
-
Axehead
An incomplete knapped flint Neolithic…
-
AXEHEAD
An incomplete knapped flint Neolithic…
-
AXEHEAD
An incomplete knapped flint Neolithic…
-
-
-
Axe
A knapped flint Neolithic polished…
-
AXEHEAD
A Neolithic polished flint axe.…
-
AXE
A knapped flint Neolithic polished…
-
AXE
Incomplete knapped and polished Neolithic…
|