Axehead
Ground and polished axeheads were produced in vast numbers during the Neolithic period. This is probably due to the need for forest clearance caused by the introduction of farming. To produce a finished axe would have taken hours of hard work. This fragment was found at the site of Hembury.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 139/1935/1203
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- axehead
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
