Axehead
Ground and polished axeheads were produced in vast numbers during the Neolithic period. This is probably because the introduction of farming meant forests needed to be cleared. Producing an axe would have taken hours of hard work grinding and polishing to give the smooth finish seen here.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 95/1995
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- axehead
- Simple Name
- polished axehead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
