- Object name(s):
- axehead; stone axehead
- Brief description:
- stone axehead: a pinkish slaty rock with prominent unweathered blobs; an altered and sheared killas with prominent crystalline augen
- Collection:
- Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 26.2.2016
- Acquisition method:
- gift
- Associated concept:
- EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY
- Completeness:
- complete
- Dimension:
- length
- Dimension value:
- 15.5 cm
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension value:
- 5 cm
- Dimension:
- depth
- Dimension value:
- 1 cm
- Field collection place:
- Cornwall
- Place status:
- County
- Field collection place:
- Nanquidno
- Field collection place:
- St Just in Penwith
- Field collection place:
- England
- Place status:
- Country
- Material:
- killas
- Number of objects:
- one
- Object name:
- axehead; stone axehead
- Object number:
- TRURI : 2016.4.3
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1000 BC
- Date - latest:
- 300 BC
- Object production place:
- Cornwall
- Place status:
- County
- Object production place:
- England
- Place status:
- Country
- Object production place:
- Nanquidno
- Object production place:
- St Just in Penwith
- User's reference:
- Reference author / editor:
- South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries
- Reference details:
- extracted from the catalogue 'Wayside Museum, Zennor, Register of Stone Implements' compiled by Charles Thomas when resident curator, winter 1954/55
- Reference number:
- 596
- Reference publication date:
- 1.6.1950
- Reference title:
- Report of Stone Axe Sub-committee
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/01d3a113-e4c7-36c2-ac9e-6ba5299a2b8a, Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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