Galeria

Axeheads

Lithic tools were integral to Neolithic societies. Flint was used for everyday tools, with some having ceremonial value. The development of stronger bronze and iron tools changed agriculture and society. This gallery shows axeheads in stone, bronze and iron in variety of periods.

The Hunt Museum

An axehead with asymmetrical faces, a gently curved asymmetrical edge and pointed sides. The edge is chipped but very sharp. The blade is damaged by flaking and this extends from the edge to the centre of both faces. The blade, sides and faces are ground …

The Hunt Museum

A bronze flat axehead with a widely splayed cutting edge, curved sides and a rounded hafting end. There is decoration on the faces. The cutting edge shows signs of wear. This axehead was found in Newcastle, Co. Down.

The Hunt Museum

A bronze axehead with slightly flanged sides and a stop-ridge. It has a widely splayed cutting edge and the sides are decorated with rope moulding.

Provinciaal Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren

Bronzen kokerbijl. Zowel op de hulsopening als op het middel is dit kleine bijltje ovaal-octogonaal. De hulsopening ...; Kokerbijl

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Axe, triangular, worked on all sides. The edge is severely damaged and reworked. Yellow flint.@eng; MM 13048; Excavation, year unknown. Gift from Pehr Lugn.@eng; …

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

An axe/hammer? head with tetragonal shape. The central part of the axe head is perforated by a circular hole, drilled from two directions and therefore not entirely straight, The hole is 1.6 cm in diameter. One side (the upper side) is inscribed.; Donated…

The Hunt Museum

A flint axehead, with the face being ovate symmetrical in shape. The sides are pointed and almost straight in plan with the edges chipped. The blade edge is curved symmetrical and defined by being ground and polished. The axe has a narrow pointed oval cro…

The Hunt Museum

A Neolithic flint axehead, with straight splayed sides from the blade to the butt. The sides and blade edge merge on the left but there is severe damage to the blade on the right. The faces are partly ground along the centre. The butt is rounded and flake…

The Hunt Museum

A flat bronze axehead with straight sides and a widely splayed cutting edge. It is decorated on one face with herring-bone decoration and short incised lines.

Provinciaal Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren

"IJzeren bijl" [Vanvinckenroye 1984]; Bijl

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Cyprus; MMs permanent Cyprus Exhibition 1989-2005.; MMs permanent Cyprus Exhibition 1989-2005.@eng; …

University of Edinburgh

Call Number - 0041867; A thin-butted, polished ceremonial flint axe with facetted sides from Denmark. From the period of the Trichter Rand Becher (TRB) culture. This axe was collected by the archaeologist V.G. Childe.

The Hunt Museum

A miniature stone axehead, the face is asymmetrical with the sides broad and rounded and merging with the butt. The edge is straight and sharp with the blade area being defined by junctions and a higher level of polished. The faces are ground and polished…

The Hunt Museum

A bronze flat axehead with a highly polished patina. It has curved sides and it is decorated on both faces. There are slight flange-like vertical ridges on both edges. It has a thin butt and a splayed cutting edge. The hafting end is damaged.

The Hunt Museum

A socketed bronze axehead with one loop. It has an oval mouth and a raised ridge decorates the rim. There are three parallel incised ridges decorating the neck. This axehead was found in Co. Armagh.

Museum of World Culture

Musselskalyxa. (Orig. nummer 03.3.; 1916.02.0028a; Barbados [[Haga]]; …

King St. Stephen's Museum

Glass negative photo of antler tools in the settlement from the Bronze Age in Pákozd in 1927.