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Description: | Polished Neolithic adze head. The adze is incomplete and has been heavily damaged although parts of the smooth polished surface remain intact. The butt of the adze (where it would have been hafted) has broken away and may have been used as a tool itself at one stage. The blade end also displays damage and there are large chips missing from the edges of the tool. Unlike an axe blade, the adze has a blunter edge. The adze head has a slightly pointed oval section and is made from a hard, fine greeny grey stone. This is possibly greenstone from the Great Langdale source in Cumbria. This Neolithic axe factory was in use from about 5,500 years ago and produced the raw material for the green-stone polished axes. The axe heads were traded throughout Britain. The axe head weighs 218g; the surviving measurements are 89.9mm in length, 56.5mm in width, 24.6mm in thickness. | 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: | 3500
2100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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