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More model informationThis unusually heavy waisted axe has been ground and pecked to shape from an unidentifed igneous rock. This implement was found during excavations on the late Neolithic (3200-2400 BC) settlement at Skara Brae, Sandwick, Orkney.
Accession No.:NMS X.HA 617.
Date: late Neolithic (3200-2400 BC)
Dimensions: L:158mm, B:62.8mm, T:48.1mm. W:865g.
This model was produced by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark for a Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Working stone, making communities: technology and identity on prehistoric Orkney’ Directed by Prof Mark Edmonds, University of York.
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