Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink: 'Denmark. 605.' Marked in pencil on side: 'Fox Coll.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Fox Collection catalogue description: 'Axe, white stained.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 24598.2 [A-C]: 'Three large square-sided celts. One (Fox 580) has been very finely worked and the result is an extremely symmetrical celt with chipped ground and polished head. The more finely worked of the remaining two is Fox 605.'
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Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See archive for the catalogue of the Fox Collection (Doc.547).
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Auction / Sale)
The Fox Collection catalogue notes that this object, no. 605, was part of lot 144, sold in the Lawrence sale room on 25th May 1914.
Event Date 25/5/1914
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for Z 24598.2 [A-C]: 'Three celts, one very fine.'
Event Date 11/4/1978
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
A very large, chipped axe of orange and brown coloured flint, with white cortex remaining on one face. Long and broadly rectangular in shape, with a pointed oval cross-section, squared sides, a curved cutting edge, and an angled butt.
Event Date 25/4/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad