axe
- Museum number
- 1889,0202.2
- Description
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Stone polished axe fragment; greenstone; ground and polished; broken.
- Dimensions
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Length: 34 millimetres
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Thickness: 5 millimetres
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Width: 40 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- From a round barrow at Folkton, North Yorkshire (formerly the East Riding of Yorkshire), known as Sharp Howe I.
A mandible fragment and a clavical were found in the disturbed central area (Greenwell’s ‘burial 1’). An adult ?female inhumation was found in a central grave cut, accompanied with a Food Vessel at ?her feet.
This fragment of a polished stone axe was found within the mound material.
Associated finds from The British Museum collection include:
1889,0202.1 – Food vessel (with burial 2)
1889,0202.3-5 – flint scrapers (mound material)
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1889,0202.2
