|
Date: |
|
Description: | A hand axe roughout made from stone - possibly chert. The object appears to have been knapped from a large flake, showing a bulb of percussion on one face and has secondary flaking around all edges to create a cutting edge. It is unclear whether this represents a finished tool or an unfinished roughout.The colour of the roughout is also similar to volcanic tuff which makes for the possibility that it came originally from Langdale which is typically similar to a number of axes in the collection of Kendal Museum and Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, which have been petrographically tested as coming from the Langdale source (Group VI).This rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash and has a fine grained composition with infrequent crystalline inclusions. Tuff is found in Britain and Ireland in a band that runs down the Irish Sea from the Lake District (the Langdale's source Group VI), County Antrim (Ireland), through North Wales (Graig Lwyd Group VII), and into Cornwall and Devon (Groups XVI and IV respectively). Volcanic tuff is similar to flint in that it can be finely worked, ground and polished to form a variety of tools; however axes are the most common find type and were used across Northern Europe during the Neolithic period.The length is 160mm and the width is 85mm. No weight available. The roughout shares similarities with LANCUM-7790A2, LANCUM-776632 and LANCUM-775851.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Axe
Two large joining fragments of…
-
AXE
An incomplete axehead rough-out of…
-
AXE
A large axe rough-out of…
-
AXE
Two large joining fragments of…
|