Collectors & Explorers
The Selby Antiquarian Collection
Polished stone axe
- Period:
- Neolithic
- Description:
The Selby collection includes a number of stone axes from Wigtownshire. This example was found by a girl named Thomson when thinning turnips at Auchingallie, Mochrum in 1908. Many of the items in the Selby Collection were casual finds made by local farmworkers.
This is a superb and very large example of a stone axe from the Langdale axe workshops in Cumbria. Most of the stone axes in south-west Scotland were made in Cumbria.
- Place of Production:
- Cumbria
- Materials/Media:
- volcanic stone
- Dimensions:
- length: 320mm
- Source:
- Stranraer Museum
- Accession number:
- 2004.6.7
- Digital Number:
- SRAM022n
- Creation Date:
- Neolithic
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
