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Description: | An incomplete stone axe of Neolithic date. The axe is comprised of a grey-green fine-grained siliceous tuff - a sedimentary volcanic rock possibly from the Great Langdale quarries in Cumbria.The axehead is sub-oval in section with narrow and flattened sides. One face is smooth and polished while the other is pitted with a large area scraped away. The wear around the edges of this area suggest the damage is old. The Langdale stone was most probably chosen for its colour and fineness which allowed it to be highly polished. It is likely that axes such as this were high status and probably not functional. If functional however the axe would have been hafted to an organic handle or haft. The haft no longer remains. The axe fragment is 52.7mm long, 51.8mm wide, 21mm thick and weighs 81g.Over 110 lithic implements of possible Langdale origins have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database ranging from Northumberland to the Isle of Wight and Wales to Norfolk.
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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