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Description: | Grey-Green Stone Igneous Stone (non-specialist identification by MF) Axe head. Polished stone axehead, presumed to be of Group VI from Langdale, Cumbria . A complete biconvex axehead of tapered oval form, with a sharply defined aris around entire edge. One chip at the narrow butt end appears to have been smoothed after incurring damage in antiquity, and this reworking may have extended37mm from the butt on this side. A small chip on the opposite face may be of similar age. The blade bears three small chips, one of which may also have been smoothed or re-polished, and a further smoothed chip appears close to the blade. Fine striations running along and across the axe may represent working or reworking in antiquity. A conchoidal chip on the opposite side of the cutting edge represents more recent damage. Suggested date: Neolithic, 3500-2100 BC.Length: 113.6mm, Width (blade): 61.7mm, Thickness: 26.1mm, Weight: 235gms.
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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