Jade axehead
This axehead is made of stone from the Italian Alps but was shaped in Brittany. It was brought to Devon hundreds of years after it was made. It must have been a very special, even magical, object.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 14/1965/8
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Pollard, Sheila
- Material
- stonejadetitejadeite
- Common Name
- jade axehead
- Simple Name
- polished axehead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
