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Description: | Polished stone axe head, sub-oval in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The axe head would have originally been hafted and held in an organic haft or handle, which has since perished.The axe is grey-green in colour and opaque and is made from a fine-grained siliceous tuff, which has iron inclusions and flecks of pyrites, which would have glistened like gold when the axe was first polished. This spotted tuff is a sedimentary volcanic rock which was orignally deposited in water and is likely from the Great Langdale quarries in Cumbria (Fiona Roe pers comm).The source of the stone was chosen for its green colour and its fineness so that it could be highly polished and the axes were quarried during the Neolithic period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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