Axe head
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1907
Materials
Flint
Measurements
60 mm (Width); 130 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 760494
Summary
Neolithic axe head from Ancient Britain 4000–2500 BCE. In 1907, while cleaning the old pond at Bateman’s, Kipling uncovered this Neolithic flint axe-head. He described it as having ‘but one chip on its still venomous edge.’
Marks and inscriptions
"Burwash??? 1907 H.W.3"