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adze (plan)
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2010-08-25 23:52:31
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adze (plan)
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English: Greenstone or epidiorite adze, tear-shaped in plan and plano-convex in profile and section. The distinct curvature of one side of the blade, while the other side is flat, suggests that the implement was used as an adze, for woodworking, rather than an axe.

The greenstone is thermally metamorphosed from an aureole of Lands End granite, and has been used as it was formed rather than pecked and ground into shape, apart from the blade end which has been worked. The butt end has a granite vein running through it which stands proud of the greenstone which has recrystalised on either side of the vein as the granite heated up the greenstone around it (Roger Taylor pers comm).

A similar example has been excavated from the Neolithic settlement at Carn Brea and is illustrated in Mercer (1981) on page 155, Fig.64, No.S6.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 4500 BC and 2150 BC
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FindID: 404201
Old ref: CORN-58D753
Filename: Aug10finds 012.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/294727
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/294727/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/404201
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