Rights Holder: Durham County Council
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Unique ID: DUR-CECB3A
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete polished stone Axehead of Neolithic date (3450-2350 BC). The object is sub-rectangular in plan and tapers inward toward the butt and is sub-ovate is section with slightly flattened sides. The blade end tapers out to the sided and in along the blade edge. The object is the blade end of an axehead and terminates in a transverse break which has smoe chipping to the edges of the break.
The object is a Langdale polished Axehead, called such due to the source of the raw material the axehead is made of. The Langdale tuff's in the Lake District are soft, volcanic deposits and polished axe-heads from this source are found throughout the country.
The chipping along the broken edge suggest that the object may have been intentionally shortened and the distinctly tapered cutting edge suggests that the object had been re-sharped a number of times.
Class: Langdale
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3450 BC
Date to: Circa 2350 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 59.91 mm
Width: 49.6 mm
Thickness: 26.26 mm
Weight: 126 g
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Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SE1891
Four figure Latitude: 54.31427771
Four figure longitude: -1.72482112
1:25K map: SE1891
1:10K map: SE19SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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