Axehead
This axehead is made from greenstone found in Cornwall. We do not know whether this stone was quarried or collected as beach pebbles. Stone axes were a vital tool for the first farmers but they must have had a value beyond the purely practical.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 346/1970/S8
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- stonegreenstone
- Common Name
- axehead
- Simple Name
- polished axehead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
