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Axe Axe Head
Flat axe in bronze.
Axe Axehead
Stone axe head. Type: splayed & narrow butt.
Axe head and chisel mould. A block of sandstone with axe head and bar shaped depressions on the sides.
Flat axe mould. Shape: tabular with 9 matrices (using all faces of the stone). Found while ploughing on the South face of Foudland Hill, Insch.
Axe head. A block of polished grey stone with a canoe like profile, and a perfectly circular hole about the size of a two pence piece drilled vertically through the centre.
Described as a 'hammer' by Reid (1912).
Axe head. A dark polished stone axe head about ten centimetres long, one end pointed and the other sharpened.
Small axe in green stone, in perfect condition. Pointed butt, curved sides, a curved cutting edge and an oval cross-section, with the sides blunted.
Axe head. A flat bronze axe head with an uneven surface and old labels stuck to it.
Flat axe, in bronze, with narrow butt and splayed blade. Found in 1830, purchased by J G Callander in 1907. Many paper labels stuck onto axe by earlier collectors.
Inscription: Old label: Stone axe found at Muchalls, 1830
Inscription: Old label: Stone axe found at Muchalls, 1830
Axe head. A heavy, black iron axe head with a square loop at the back to insert a handle.
Axe head in iron.
Axe head. A heavy, polished and blunt sandstone axe head with a large circular hole running vertically through the centre.
Sandstone axe head, found with cinerary urn.
Axe head. A large axe head made of green jadeite, in a long rounded triangle shape, with a wooden haft.
Shape: round blade & narrow butt. Possibly an exotic import. Haft added in nineteenth or twentieth century.
Axe head. A large flat iron axe head of one piece with the blade projecting horizontally from a socketed area.
Axe head from a woodman's axe, no haft.