axe

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Object Type: axe
Museum number: POA.169
Description: Stone polished axe fragment; Group VI tuff, Y831; ground and polished; broken and extensively reworked.
Cultures/periods: Neolithic/Bronze Age
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Seamer Moor 2, round barrow Burial 1 (?) Burial 2 (?)
Materials: tuff
Technique: polished
Dimensions: Length: 66 millimetres; Weight: 93 grammes; Thickness: 19 millimetres; Width: 52 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Kinnes et al 1985 / The Greenwell Collection (UN 131:2)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition notes: Found 'in barrow with burnt body' Acquisition details unknown as of September 2003.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: POA.169

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