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Description: | A polished flint axe dating from the Neolithic period, about 4000 BC - 2200 BC. It is formed from opaque, light grey flint. It is oval in section, faceted at the blade end, and egg shaped in plan. It has covering, scaled, low-angle flaking, and the blade end, about one third of the axe, is polished. One side of the cutting blade is chipped and damaged. The axe is 65mm long, 37.3mm wide and 16.5mm thick. 39.9g. The incomplete polishing may be explained by the axe having been broken and then reworked (Keving Leahy, pers. comm., 4/12/14).The small size of the axe could suggest that it is votive or ritual, possibly deposited in a grave (Jason Dodds, pers. comm., 2/12/14).
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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