Adze

Unidentified European Prehistoric maker

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Neolithic (7000-1700 BCE)

Polished basalt

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

35.29.3478

Geography

Place Found: Ireland, Europe

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Not on view

Provenance

G. F. Lawrence Antiquary (George Fabian Lawrence, 1861-1939), London, England; sold to present collection, 1935.

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