1934.179

A neolithic polished stone axehead found at Camp, Miserden parish, near Stroud, Gloucestershire. The cutting edge is broad, the sides taper in to the butt end which is narrow. The axe has an asymmetrical cross-section. Made from a grey-green, mottled stone which is very pitted and eroded. The stone has been identified as coming from Cornwall, petrological Group I, probably a greenstone. The axehead was found some 25 years before being donated, in the intervening years it was used as a gate stop in the owner's garden, probably causing the erosion now evident .

Cornwall

Cretaceous

flaked, polished