E1233
This wooden tool was once used for piercing holes in animal skin.
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300/1988/B16
Bone tools were commonly used in medieval craft work, like this awl which was used for textile working.
91/1932/48
The axe’s wooden handle is attached to a blade of decorated iron and a sheathing of patterned copper – both metals being rare and expensive.
100/2015
A Bronze Age axe of a type known by archaeologists as a palstave.
57/1938/21
Impractical as a weapon, this axe incorporates both iron and copper-alloy and was recognized as representing a symbol of authority and power.
136/1993/102
High quality example of Zulu axe thought to be from the Tugela Ferry area.
TTNCM : 130/1986/476
This wooden axe was found beside the Sweet Track and is probably a childês toy.
48/1949/1
This is a ground and polished stone axe head from North America.
8/1952/3/1
Ceremonial version of a weapon used for defence and for hunting game.
25/2019/1
A complete Middle Bronze Age palstave which was found with a bracelet and castling jet in the Burlescombe hoard.
28/2019
This flint axehead would have taken a skilled worker many hours to make.
1/2004
A wood haft and binding that would have securely held a stone adze.
1891/7/3
The volcanic rock comes from a region that forms an important part of the extensive system of eel traps used by the Gunditj Mara.
458/2005
Collected in the 1960s from Mazabuka, Kafue River (Batonga).
94/2000
Although a small Carib population remains on Dominica, these shell axes were produced by their ancestors who lived on the island in large numbers before Europeans arrived and enslaved them.
A7183
This axe, made of copper or bronze, was found in the adjacent field to Broadsands Chamber Tomb through the PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme).
34/2019/2
An axe fragment from a Late Bronze Age hoard found near Dawlish.
34/2019/3
48/1956/1
This Neolithic ground and polished axe head was found in Cyprus.
48/1956/2
48/1956/3
48/1956/4
86/1920/2
This type of axe was used for splitting logs.
19/1926
This type of blade was not in use in the 20th century.
181/1911
25/1953
From SW Australia this axe is commonly referred to as ‘kodj’.
33/1953/29
An innovative axe that incorporates iron.
33/1952/2
Axe with large flat stone head, one edge sharper than the other.
33/1953/37
Head made of two pieces of flint, one blunt and hammer-like, the other flaked, and held together by hardened gum.
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