Axehead
This is a fragment of a polished stone axehead which has been reshaped to make it a useable item, presumably after it had been broken. Polished axeheads were prized items as they were usually made from rarer types of stone and required much effort to shape. It is perhaps unsurprising this one has been reused. This tool is one of the few prehistoric objects which show people living and moving through the landscape which later became Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1/1986
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- axehead
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
