The axe head was found near Castle Sween, North Knapdale. It was made during the Neolithic period and is some 5000 years old. With a wooden haft, the axe would have been used as a multipurpose ...

The Bronze Age axe-heads appear to have been packaged using a flapjack box Two axe-heads, which are believed to be more than 4,000 years old, have been sent to the National Museum of Ireland by an ...

The introdution in Neolithic times of the polished stone axe-head,capable of producing large clean cuts,led to greater speed and precision in the in the clearing of woodland, and to its use on a ...

Rachel Mottram from Sheffield has this Stone Age axe-head which she thinks is 5000 years old. "My father found it in a field in in 1937 in a field in Wootton near Beverley, Hull.