Record ID: BERK-742307
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished axe, only the tip survives. The break is old, suggesting that it may have broken during manufacture / final polishing. The flint is light to dark grey in colour and may be from a chalk downland source.
Created on: Friday 9th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinksey Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-F71E06
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished stone axe fragment made of a non-local stone. The axe fragment measures approximately 42mm wide, 45mm long and 15mm thick.
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Rollright', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-A8E873
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint axe (3,500-2,100BC). Cream/pale grey flint with iron staining (this usually indicates the flint originated in the Chilterns). Two small areas of polishing, one on each side, but otherwise flake scars are present on all surfaces. The butt end is slightly rounded and the sides taper gradually before tapering in to the pointed opposite end.
Created on: Monday 11th October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goring Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-23A863
Object type: AXE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval iron axe head (10th - 13th century). The width of the axe head expands from the butt (width: 50.19mm) to the curved cutting edge (width: 88.57mm). The upper edge is straight but the lower edge curves downwards. In the centre on one side a makers mark has been stamped. The mark is a cross where the length is twice the width of the arms. It is arranged so that the long arm of the cross is aligned along the length of the axe head. The axe head is broken across the vertical perforation for attachment on the butt, ?broken in antiquity. It is similar to woodworking axes (10t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Farthinghoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-11D8D1
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic handaxe made from a mottled-grey flint. The handaxe has bifacial removals while c.5% cortex remains on the dorsal surface. There is some suggestion that this axe has been polished or smoothed in places, although this may have been caused by water action rather than purposeful grinding / polishing.
Created on: Wednesday 17th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
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Record ID: BERK-047CA5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron axe head of uncertain date. The axe has a curved cutting edge and splayed tip, its thickness gradually widening towards the now missing axe butt. Iron axes are notoriously difficult to date when discovered outside of a dated archaeological context as the general form of axes has continued from at least as early as the Roman period (Manning 1976, 3). This example was possibly used as a Woodsman's axe and is likely to date to around the medieval period, probably from the 10th to 16th centuries AD.
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
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Record ID: BERK-2731C5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic (c.4000-2100 BC) polished flint axe. The fragment consists of only a portion of the tip.
Created on: Friday 27th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2012
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Record ID: BERK-D20F95
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stout, well made ground and polished flint axe with some flake scars still visible at both the towards butt and blade ends. Both lateral edges are ground to a ridge. It white with spots of orange/brown patina. Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,351 BC. Length: 104.4mm, Width: 53.2mm, Thickness: 23.6, Weight: 181.4
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-D2630D
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete flint axe of Neolithic date (4500 BC – 2000 BC). The implement is a mottled buff/grey colour. It is a pointed oval shape in section. It is symmetrical in plan and is almost symmetrical when viewed from the bladed end. The cutting edge is fairly evenly curved. Both faces have been knapped but cortext survives on one side and around the edge. About half way along this edge is a raised section which has not been finished. Length: 147.6mm, Width: 62.1mm, Thickness: 33.7mm, Weight: 368.2g Length 161mm, width 61mm and 32mm thick. Weight 318g.
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-C8C6EE
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete stone axe of Neolithic date, probably a Group VI Langdale axe. The stone axe has been polished and is grey-green in colour. The axe is made from a fine-grained siliceous tuff, a sedimentary volcanic rock which was orignally deposited in water and is likely to be from the Great Langdale quarries in Cumbria. The axe is damaged, missing most of one side and some of the blade edge on both surfaces. The break may have occured during use, as it appears to originate from the blade end (Alison Roberts pers. comm). c. 4000-2351 BC.
Created on: Thursday 11th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 23rd October 2020
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Record ID: BERK-7C827A
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint axe fragment, polished, consisting of the lower part of body and cutting edge. Patina is white with greyish blue interior. Irregular truncation (unpatinated), probably quite recent; Lenticular in cross section with convex cutting edge. Dates to the period -4000 - to -2500 BC. The width at the truncation is 46.95mm and the thickness of 14.82mm was taken at the mid-point. Other measurements shown below.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
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Record ID: BERK-EF5FC7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A tiny fragmant from a Neolithic polished axe, possibly knapped off the main object.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Record ID: BERK-DAF6EB
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Axe Head, an iron axe with an unusually long, oblong shaped socket with a split seam. - Axes can be hard to date, stylistically, there is a common theme from the Roman period through to the Post-Medieval. However, the long socket, with the unusual curved butt on this example, are a confusion. The blade, in axe terminology, looks too 'closed' the overall look might suggest a much later date however the split socket is characteristic of late Roman and especially early medieval iron artefacts. Heavy corrosion covers the whole surface.The axe was found in an area of mostly Roman …
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: BERK-B49A9C
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint Thames Valley 'trancet axe core tool of Mesolithic date (c.8300 - 3500BC). All the but a small section of the cortex has been removed. This is an symetrical tool with a sharp, flat broad bladed end, the opposite end narrows to flat point. The upper surface has a shallow central longitudinal ridge, bevelled to each side. The lower surface is far shallower, rounder and bevelled to each side, with longer, far more shallow, removals all over. The sides are fairly straight and slightly battered. The flint is white in colour with areas of orangy-brown patination. …
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2020
Last updated: Saturday 19th December 2020
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Record ID: BERK-8634C7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic Thames Valley tranchet axehead. A flaked core tool of broadly rectangular shape and asymmetrical profile formed from a light grey flint nodule interspersed with large patches of cortex. The dorsal face is convexly curved with an uneven ridge. The ventral face is flatter with a more even ridge. The long edges are roughly parallel with the narrowed relatively flat blade. The butt is slightly narrower than the body and is rounded. Both the dorsal and ventral faces are crudely worked across the body. Patchy iron staining covers both faces.
Created on: Saturday 2nd October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: BERK-EBCB60
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic polished flint axe. T he polished surface is convex in profile with fragment of one edge curving down at a c.60 degree angle. Ventral surface not a modern scar because it has a white/cream patina. Striations visible on polished surface. Period dates between 2900 and 2100 BC
Created on: Sunday 19th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
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Record ID: BH-C96C70
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a ground and polished flint axe of early Neolithic date. The piece represents the middle section of the axe. The cutting edge and narrower (shaft attachment) end have been removed, probably by later ploughing. The surfaces of the remaining piece are also heavily plough-damaged. The fragment measures 74.7mm long and weighs 87.11g. At one end the projected width is 44.9mm. This increases slightly to 48.9mm at the other end and indicates that the original form of the object was sub-rectangular rather than heavily tapered like some axes of the period. The surfaces of the axe …
Created on: Friday 13th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edlesborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-5057C5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An socketed iron axe head of possible Roman date. The object has a roughly triangular cutting blade, measuring up to 79.3mm wide and 8.9mm thick. It narrows to 32.9mm high, at the point where it joins to the socket. The socket has a flattened end and a vertical oval attachment hole, which measures 23.5mm long by 16mm wide. The object, as a whole, is 139.2mm long and weighs 514.2g. It is heavily corroded.
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-086652
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Polished flint axe of Neolithic date (c.4,000 to 2,000). Light grey flint and highly polished, with some small flake removal scars around the edges. The only damage is to the haft end, where a small area has been struck off, probably by the plough. Otherwise the object is a fine example of the type, with a sharp blade and flattened ground edges on its long sides. It is 153.4mm in length and 63.3mm wide at the blade end and 36.8mm wide at the rear end. The maximum thickness is 34.3mm and it weighs 425g.
Created on: Thursday 11th March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BH-4DE412
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A flint blade core made from a Neolithic polished axe. Two vertical strips of the polished axe surface remain, including one which extends around one of the narrow edges, providing an indication of the original form. The rest of the surface has been removed by the striking of five broad blades. The piece is oval in section and contains a large flaw, which may be the reason for the axe having been abandoned. The surface of the flint is a heavily patinated light grey colour. Dimensions: 74.1mm long, 42.9mm wide, 29.6mm thick. Weight: 104.69.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Munden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-A52CE2
Object type: AXE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An iron axe-head, probably of late Roman date. The axe has an integral collar with oval perforation. This extends to a wedge-shaped blade with a pronounced curve. The axe measures 160mm in length and has a maximum width of 28mm. The perforation measures 37mm in length by 21mm in width. Manning (1976, p. 24) notes that this is a common form of Roman axe, which frequently dates to the late Roman period, although it has been found in earlier contexts.Examples are known from Strageath, Burgh Castle and in hoards from Great Chesterford and Silchester.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2017
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Record ID: BUC-4B2344
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A pale grey polished flint axe. The width of the axe tapers, along the 116.9mm length, slightly from 35.51 to 33.55mm. The axe has beem considerably reworked more than once. The initially about a third of both sides has been reflaked, giving one end a chisel shaped tip. Further reworking cuts throught the previous patination. The blade of the polished end has been chipped in several places.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Horwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-321762
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A polished flint axe slightly damaged on the cutting edges
Created on: Monday 1st September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-374685
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron axe, probably dating from the Medieval to Post-Medieval periods (c.AD 1066-1900). The axe is comprised of the blade tip. The object is convex and trapezoidal in plan, rectangular in cross-section and triangular in profile. The blade is gently curved and flares out slightly on one edge. Brown-orange corrosion, with patches of black and surface pitting covers all faces of the axe. Dimensions - length: 41.14mm, width: 52.05mm, maximum thickness: 12.80mm, thickness at blade tip: 1.95mm, weight: 89.5g.
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2021
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Record ID: BUC-D44705
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An undated iron axehead. The socket is of oval sub-cross section. The blade is of rectangular section, has inward-bowing sides and a thickness that gradually decreases, towards the convex cutting edge.
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-77F152
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished stone axe dating to the Neolithic period. The axe is made from a pale grey flint with dark grey-blue mottling. The butt of the axe is damaged and there is a small chip from the blade edge. The axe measures 155mm in length, 67mm in width and 35mm in thickness. It is a lenticular with facetted sides type (Field, D. and Woolley, A.R. 1984 ‘Neolithic and Bronze Age ground stone implements’ from Surrey: morphology, petrology and distribution. Surrey Archaeological Collective Volume 75 p,85-109). Butler (Butler, C. 2005 Prehistoric Flintwork Tempus, p.142) describes the polish…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Babraham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-054364
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic flint hand axe.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sawston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-D92171
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axe dating to the mesolithic period. An elongated oval in shape and oval in section. It measures approximately 170mm in length and 46mm at its widest part, it has a thickness of 33mm.
Created on: Friday 19th May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-1A4124
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a flint axe of Neolithic date. The fragment is 48mm long, 29mm wide at the widest, and 10mm thick at the thickest point.
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Record ID: CAM-1BB255
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished stone axe of Neolithic date. The axe is badly fractured on all surfaces and only one surface partley retains the cutting edge. The axe 91mm long, 50mm wide and 5mm thick.
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
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Record ID: CAM-2A6152
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished flint axe, c. 4.500 - 3.500 BC. A light grey - grey mottled, blotchy flint with an even, polished surface but with some areas of polishing unfinished. There is some slight plough damage to the cutting edge of the axe, and iron staining streaks in places showing where the plough has clipped it several times. Longitudinally, the axe is convex in shape - the break of the slope towards the cutting edge is sharp and at an angle of nearly 45 degrees; towards the butt end of the axe the break of slope is slightly less at around 30 degrees. Latitudinally, the axe…
Created on: Tuesday 5th October 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Record ID: CAM-666345
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Fragment of Late Bronze Age Socketed Axe, double mouth moulding, trace of casting flash. Probably a South Eastern class A. Ewart Park phase, c 1000 - 800 BC.
Created on: Monday 1st November 2004
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2011
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Record ID: CAM-796785
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a polished Neolithic Axe head c. 4000- 2200 BC crafted from mottled grey flint. The flint fragment is bi-faced and flaked along one edge suggesting that it has had a secondary use as a knife. The piece of flint has been in a fire at some time, probably in antiquity as there is evidence of fire cracking, which may have resulted in the piece having broken up through time.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Record ID: CAM-E99EE7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small ground-polished Green Stone axe. Early-mid Neolithic c. 4500-2900 BC. Possibly of Cornish Green Stone, Cumbria or North Wales in origin and is of a dark grey-green hue. The Axe is symmetrical in cross-section, and is transverse in shape both at the Distal and Proximal ends. Both ventral and dorsal surfaces are finely ground and semi-polished, and the distal end has a fine cutting edge. There is also a small crescent-shaped indentation on the ventral - dorsal surface, approximately mid way along the axe, which may have been added to aid the hafting of the axe into its haft. The…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Record ID: CAM-34E684
Object type: AXE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Created on: Monday 13th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-559728
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Perforated Stone Battle Axe, Hammer Head Early Bronze Age c. 2.300- 1200 BC. A fragment of a Battle Axe, or stone Hammer, Made from either Millstone Grit, or Oolitic Limestone that' s been ground and worked. Trapezoidal in shape and tapering down to a blunt point, with a hole through the centre at which point the axe has fractured, the hole would of been approximately 24.30 mm in diameter. The top surface being concave in shape, and the sides being flat and with fairly sharp edges, two edges showing some signs of wear.
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-C33286
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chert axe head, triangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The axe has been bifacially worked throughout and both margins have been retouched on both faces. The hafted end of the axe, opposite the blade, is flat and probably forms part of the original platform for working the axe. There are polished areas, due to use, on both faces of the axe, on and above the blade edge, and patches of iron staining on the surface. The chert is honey-coloured and is typical of the greensand chert found on the south coast of Devon and Dorset. So this axe was probably imported, eit…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-71BC22
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Jadeite axehead, tear-drop shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section, with patches of glassy polish and iron staining. The axehead was analysed non-destructively, using scattered reflectance spectroradiometry, in October 2007 as part of an international French project, Projet JADE, covering all axeheads of Alpine rock in Europe. The project is directed by Dr Pierre Petrequin, until recently of CNRS and the University of Besancon. The analysis was undertaken by Dr Michel Errera (then of the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium) at the CNRS Lab…
Created on: Thursday 4th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-B60742
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gabbroic greenstone axe which has been petrologically analysed by Dr. Roger Taylor as part of the Clodgy Moor Project. Straight-sided in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and oval in section. About half of the axe remains, including the cutting edge, which has a shaped finish and has broken after some grinding, so it is not a roughout. The axe may have originally been twice as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the haft. The axe may look like an adze because its blade is slightly off-centre and its section not quite elliptical, o…
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-47E2F1
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greenstone or metadolerite axe roughout, which has been petrologically analysed by Dr. Roger Taylor as part of the Clodgy Moor Project. The roughout is a weathered cobble in the basic shape of a tear-shaped axe in plan, and is lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. There is a concentric groove that carries on around the width of the axe at an oblique angle, which was probably formed by wear if it was suspended as a weight. But many similar examples are turning up from the same field which suggests a possible local source or outcrop for this rock type. A chip of the butt …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2012
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