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AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Unique ID: NLM-B938B8
Object type certainty: Possibly
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status: Awaiting validation 
Grey-green vesicular stone, possible axehead blank fragment. A fragment from one end of a sub-rectangular billet with flat sides and curved at its one remaining corner, roughly bevelled at one end and smoothed or hollowed on its two largest sides. This was kindly suggested as a possible Greenstone fragment by Sandra Firth of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group, which would suggest an association with the Group 6 axes of Langdale stone, which are common local finds. It is at all events an alien stone to the underlying geology of its find-spot. It may be a fragment of a rubber or muller or an improvised hone collected from glacial drift. Such adventitious use of local erratics is characteristic of periods from Prehistory to the Anglo-Scandinavian period, whereafter imported stones were favoured for such uses. Suggested date: Unknown, Neolithic to Early Medieval, 4000 BC - AD 850.
Length: 70mm, Width: 40.6mm, Thickness: 23.2mm, Weight: 113.28gms
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa AD 850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 70 mm
Width: 40.6 mm
Thickness: 23.2 mm
Weight: 113.28 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st September 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM33696
Materials and construction
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Caistor
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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