Axehead
- Accession Number
- EC1411
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Implements and utensils, Warfare, hunting and fishing equipment, Axe
- Material
- Stone/minerals (Flint)
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- Length: 118mm | Width: 43mm | Depth: 16mm
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Licensing details
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- Description
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Black polished flint axehead. Possibly European prehistoric. However, polished axes are known from Egypt. 3 were sold in the Hilton Price collection 1911, lot 5. Has one label with number '526' thereon and onother 'from Bryce Wright, 90 Gt. Russell St., London'.
- Other Identity
- 526 (printed on a small rectangular label)
- Previous Owners
- Sir. Hermann David Weber (1823–1918) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
