Context (Display)
Part of a historic museum display of Asian stone tools in a cabinet drawer. Found in August 2006 below a layer of beads which formed subsequent display/storage in the Beck Bead Cabinet in the Babington Workroom.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card reads: 'The Donor says "Found by local natives. Depth unknown. Probably about 3ft. Red mark is that of a modern worship candle's mark, perhaps in consequence of superstitions.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Chinese text marked in black ink on surface.
Event Date
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Stone Axe or Adze Head. The type resembles Polynesian ones. Some from Lamma are even more like Polynesians ones than these.
Event Date 1934
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card: 'The type resembles Polynesian ones. Some from Lamma are even more like Polynesians ones than these. '
Event Date 1934
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
cf: Finn, Daniel J. and R.F. Ryan (ed.). (1958). Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island near Hong Kong. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong.
[Re-publication of a series of articles which appeared in the Hong Kong naturalist from 1933 to 1936.]
Event Date 1958
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
In October 2012, Ray M.K. Ma, Assistant Curator, Antiquities & Monuments Office, Hong Kong examined this object and tentatively identified it as Bronze Age. The Period field has been updated accordingly, as previously there was no period given.
Event Date 2/10/2012
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Adze made of polished greenish-brown stone. Incorporating a flat butt end, flat sides which converge towards a bevelled flat cutting edge, and a truncated lens cross-section. A horizontal band of brown pigment covers the length of the adze. Of Polynesian type.
Event Date 27/10/2023
Author: Alana Edgeworth