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Description: | Green Volcanic Tuff from the Langdale Pikes. Polished Stone axehead of Group 6 (from visual examination). Axehead of elongated teardrop form with a sharp crescentic cutting edge whence it tapers along its length to a narrow rounded butt. A lentoid section at the cutting edge gives way to a flat-sided form behind it, with flattened and polished areas along the edges where the sides of the axe meet. This was presumably intended to prevent an originally sharp aris from cutting through a tied hafting. A D-shaped chip towards the cutting edge on one side has possibly been smoothed but not polished; another smaller and similar chip appears on the same side close to the butt. There are also two tiny recent chips on the cutting edge, and a series of lines which appear to be inked or pencilled marks or marks from sharpening a pencil. Suggested date: Early Neolithic, 4000-3500 BC.Length: 111mm, Width: 64.1mm, Thickness: 37.4mm, Weight: 131.50gms.
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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