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Description: | Half of a stone mace head, broken across the haft hole. The mace is an elongated oval in plan and has an hour glass shaped hole drilled in the centre. At one end of the hole there is a series of vertical grroves, approximately 5mm in length and spaced circa 1mm apart. These marks might have been intentionally made to increase the grip of bone wedges forced into the socket in order to make the haft more secure. The surface of the mace has been polished and is very smooth to the touch. The tip of the mace is pointed and a darker colour around the lip. The area immediately above the lip is notably more polished than the rest of the surface, presumably due to useage of the mace. The stone is a greenish colour with quartz inclusions. The object is perhaps a Langdale greenstone. | 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: | -8300
-2100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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