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Description: | A polished stone axehead. The axehead has been sheared in half and the butt end is missing. This is presumably a result of plough damage. The curved cutting edge of the axe retains its sharpness and is undamaged other than some nicks along the edge which probably also represent post-depositional damage. The axehead's polish is most well-preserved in the area immediately around the cutting edge and the surface becomes pock-marked towards the butt-end of the axe. This probably represents the process of 'pecking' by which the axe was manufactured, and it was only at the cutting edge of the tool that the artefact was polished enough to remove the pecking scars made during manufacture. The blade length of the axe is 32 mm. The length of the half of the axe that remains is 67 mm so the length of the complete axe would have been appxoximately 134 mm. The axe is oval in section with a thickness of 34.5 mm at its thickest point. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 4000
2000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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