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Three views of a stone axe.
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2003-07-28 15:05:57
Title
Three views of a stone axe.
Description
English: In plan the axe is an elongated trapezoidal shape. In cross section it is bi-trapezoidal towards the blade. The butt is a sub-oval shape in section. The butt was broken in antiquity. 
The axe is made from a blue fine grained stone made up of volcanic ash. Ordovician. Found in Wales and the Lake District. (Jon Radley, Warwickshire Museum).

The blade has been re-sharpened.
The surface has been polished.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Worcestershire
Date PREHISTORIC
Accession number
FindID: 50154
Old ref: WAW-E66F96
Filename: WAW-E68630.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/6023
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/6023/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/50154
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 15 November 2020)
Object location52° 12′ 26.28″ N, 2° 06′ 20.27″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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