Context (Related Documents)
See card for sketch.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Other)
Burnt in the fire following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.
Event Date 1923
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1930.44 A-B: 'Two stone axes - ground with shoulders of type found in Burma, but with small hole bored in top of A and large on top of B - apparently for hafting. B of grey stone has slight decoration, probably of metal age'
Event Date 1930
Author: maa

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.
Event Date 2006
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Axe made of mottled grey and black stone. Incorporating a cylindrical stem with a perforated hole latitudinally through the stone, squared shoulders, flat sides which converge towards a flat cutting edge, and a rectangular cross-section. A fragment of the axe has broken off and is not present.
Event Date 23/10/2023
Author: Alana Edgeworth