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390


Sunderland


Sunderland, Austin & Pickersgill Shipyard, polished stone axe


Sunderland


NZ35NE


Tools and Equipment


Cutting Equipment


Axe


Prehistoric


Neolithic


Find


A polished stone axe was found 30 feet below the waterline at Austin and Pickersgill's Shipyard (probably Southwick Yard), in 1976. Its dimensions are: length 100 mm, max. width 59 mm, thickness 33 mm.


378


581


NZ378581



<< HER 390 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, 1976, Neolithic polished axe R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 62, 65, and fig. 19, no. 7

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