Axes (tools): GR.47f.1901

Current Location: In storage

Entities

Axes (tools)

Description

Hand axe

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.031 m
Width: 0.04 m

Relative size of this object

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Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1901) by Bosanquet, R. C.

Materials used in production

Serpentine

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.47f.1901
Primary reference Number: 67533
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 21 October 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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            University of Cambridge}}