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Unique ID: NMGW-DE9E23
Object type certainty: Certain
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Butt fragment of a Neolithic stone axehead. The surface of the axe was ground or pecked, rather than polished. The axehead is made from an altered coarse dolorite, which is highly chloritic. The rock is likely to have originated from West Wales and is similar to sources which outcrop locally. The axehead has a pointed butt and rounded sides, which gently diverge. A little less than half of the original length survives. One of the faces shows evidence of damage through flaking, it is not clear whether this damage occurred in antiquity or more recently.
Notes:
The stone does not appear to correspond with the stone axe group types.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 96.3 mm
Width: 56.5 mm
Thickness: 41.5 mm
Weight: 313.5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st May 2003
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Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SM9030
Four figure Latitude: 51.928796
Four figure longitude: -5.055792
1:25K map: SM9030
1:10K map: SM93SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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