Axe, stone
Collection object
0000.0039
Axehead, stone, roughout, broken during manufacture, cutting end of 0000.38. Limestone? D-shaped in outline. One face is flat, the natural stone surface, the other slightly concave with irregular ripples curving downward from the top left corner, and a narrow u-sectioned groove curving at right-angles from the back right. The back is straight, its edge obliquely concave. The cutting edge has large flakes removed on the flat face, and is more battered than flaked on the other. The edge on one side is flat, the natural surface, at an angle to the back. Below this, the cutting edge is battered flat and straight, forming a sharp angle at each end, and on the back, the leading edge is flaked back for half the width. The opposite corner of the back has a short triangular- sectioned point produced by secondary flaking. Secondary use as a hand-axe? Neolithic. L. 8.53 W. 13.5 T. max 2.68 Il(l RIA) handwritten in pencil on one face
M.C. Knowles (collected by)