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[edit]| Neolithic flint axe | |||
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, Amy Downes, 2007-05-22 17:53:24 |
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| Title |
Neolithic flint axe |
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| Description |
English: A Neolithic polished flint axe. The axe is 152.2mm long, 62.6mm wide and 28mm thick. It weighs 338g. The axe is a tapering sub-rectangular shape and is ovoid in section with a flat facet at each end of the oval. The curved cutting edge is in good condition but there is some damage to the narrow end and a little of the end is missing. The damage at the haft end appears to be post depositional, but is not very recent, as the break is patinated. The axe patination in general is variable, the variations in colour being difference in patination rather than differences in the stone. The axe was found during gardening work in a Park. It is likely that the soil was moved to the site when the park was laid out in the Victorian period, so the findspot is probably not the original place of deposition. Stone axes represent a large investment of work by the community that made it, and it is believed that axes were considered to be very valuable, worth more than their practical usage, and were often used in gift exchange to cement social relationships in the Neolithic period ('Neolithic Britain' by Pollard, 1997). |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Kirklees | ||
| Date | between 3500 BC and 2100 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 180884 Old ref: SWYOR-328703 Filename: PAS stone axe.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/138800 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/138800/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/180884 |
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