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Record ID: CORN-7A53A0
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greenstone axehead with expanded blade, emulating bronze flat axes being produced at the same time. The axe is P-shaped in plan, with one side of the blade more expanded than the other, and triangular in profile and oval in section.
The butt end is missing and at the broken edge there is a hole, 11 mm in diameter, where a core has been removed to identify the rock type. At this broken edge, the axe is 62 mm wide and 43 mm thick. It then expands to form the blade which is 93 mm wide andslopes downwards to create the blade edge which is 13 mm thick.
There are two transv…
Created on: Saturday 2nd July 2016
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-7852B4
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone axehead with expanded crescentic blade, emulating bronze flat axes being produced at the same time. The axe is triangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section.
The butt end is slightly damaged and there is a hole, 12 mm in diameter, where a core has been removed to identify the rock type. At the butt end, the axe is 41 mm wide and 33 mm thick. It then expands all the way from the butt end to the blade which is 103 mm wide and is pecked so that it slopes downwards to create the blade edge which is 8 mm thick.
There are two oblique grooves on the ventral fa…
Created on: Saturday 2nd July 2016
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2017
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Record ID: CAM-36A859
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of stone, which has divided specialist opinion. It is not possible to confirm that this piece of stone is definitely an artefact and at least one specialist considers it to be a water smoothed pebble of igneous stone, possible glacial erratic pebble from boulder clay deposits, that has a plough struck spall removed from one side. Other specialists feel that this could possibly have been an axehead, probably dating to 2000-1500BC. Alternatively speculation as to whether it is a Palaeolithic handaxe has been muted. Both suggestions agree that it is not possible to determine t…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2016
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