Record ID: CORN-A4BBA4
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete gabbroic greenstone cushion macehead or shafthole adze, ovate in plan, tapering slightly towards the butt end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. The macehead probably originally from a beach cobble with little reshaping with a coarse surface texture mainly from weathering (Roger Taylor pers comm). It would have then been pecked and ground into shape and the central hole bored by using sand and a drill. The shaft hole is circular in plan and an 'hour-glass'…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.