Description (Labels & Markings)
The slide is mared '229' and 'XHL' in pencil and 'Ground stone axe, (see 60.197). Returned to Brit. Honduras' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Axe has been sliced or analysed as Andesite Lava or Porphyrite (like 1960.197 C).
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Structure A-15. Rubbish pit A, phase 2; context Omicron-2. Excavated by Euan MacKie, Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-1960, funded by the Crowther-Beynon Fund. See archive (FR3/2/3) for correspondence, analysis, etc.
Event Date 1959
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'Phase II (=occupation) equivalent to Benque Viejo IIIb Classic (see Thompson [(1924). 'Late Ceramic Horizons at Benque Viejo, British Honduras'. Contributions to American Archaeology and History, no. 35. Carnegie Institution Washington]).'
Event Date 1960
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Ground axe with pecked surface.
Event Date 1/6/1960
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
MacKie, E. W. (1985). Excavations at Xunantunich and Pomona, Belize, in 1959-60. BAR International Series 251. pp.137, fig. 17, no. 179.
Event Date 1985
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Thin section of a ground stone axe with pecked surface, mounted on a slide.
Event Date 20/8/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
The slide is marked '229 XHL', which refers to the small finds (SF) number in MacKie (1985) with the three-letter code ‘XHL’ denoting the excavation number. However, SF 229.XHL does not appear in MacKie (1985); the closest match is SF 229.XHI, described as being a 'fragment of ground stone axe of quartz porphyrite.' As such, excavation numbers and small finds numbers associated with both XHI and XHL have been tentatively added to the 'Other Numbers' field.
Event Date 20/6/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang