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Description: | Possibly lamp formed on an axe shaped stone. The shape of the stone may be fortuitous but has then had a recess pecked into it, and a shallower channel pecked in a rough curve coming out of it. These features are outlined on the second photo. The purpose of these modifications is unknown but it would have made a functional oil/fat lamp. When placed with the pecked feature uppermost, the object is stable. There are depressions on either side of the objects 'waist' that may be artificial, but these are so worn that it is now impossible to know if they are or not. It is possible that the stone was worked due to its similarity to an axe, or it may be that it was a partially completed stone version of a bronze axe. Its date is unknown but it maybe Bronze Age or Early Medieval or later.The pecked hollow has a length of 44mm, width 32mm, and depth approximately 5mm. The overall length is 160mm, width 89mm, and the thickness 33mm.A note of caution is needed with this item as there are no apparent parallels. It has however been worked, but to what degree and for what purpose is uncertain.
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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