Polished axehead
This unusually shaped axe may have been a local copy of a European jadeite axe. It was found in the ditch of a ‘causewayed enclosure’ - a site where the enclosure is made of a series of ditches with gaps, or causeways, in between. The placing of such a special axe in a ditch may have been to give the site power or to commemorate an event.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 103/1994/sf1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- stonegreenstone
- Common Name
- polished axehead
- Simple Name
- polished axehead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
