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Description: | Neolithic polished stone axe. Convex faces with rounded sides, wide blade end tapering considerably towards the butt end. One modern chip on one corner of the blade, and a few older chips including one towards the centre of the blade, and damage to the butt end. Fine grained igneous rock such as basalt, weathered. Length c.178mm, width of blade end 104mm, width of butt end c.20mm, thickness 42mm, weight c.890g.
Evans 1872 ('The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons & Ornaments of Great Britain', London) publishes some polished axes of siilar form with narrow butt and wide blade, pp104-5, nos. 57 (Nunnington, Yorkshire) & 60 (Ilderton, Northumberland). | 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
-2000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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