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Polished stone axe Pike of Stickle on the left, from the summit cairn of Pike of Blisco.The central scree run has produced many rough-out axes. Harrison Stickle, the highest of the Langdale Pikes, in the right centre of the group Neolithic stone axe from Langdale with well preserved handle, found at Ehenside Tarn near the Cumbrian coast (now in the British Museum [a])
The area has outcrops of fine-grained greenstone suitable for making polished axes which have been found distributed across the British Isles. [1] The rock is an epidotised greenstone quarried or perhaps just collected from the scree slopes in the Langdale Valley on Harrison Stickle and Pike of Stickle.
Evidence of axe manufacture have been found in many areas of Great Langdale but it is the screes of Pike of Stickle which have yielded the most discoveries. There is a small cave at the top of the Stickle Stone Shoot near the summit of the fell which was part of the stone axe factory. [1]
Little Langdale is a valley in the Lake District, England, ... A socketed Bronze Age axe was found on Low Fell above Greenburn Beck in 1961 [37] ...
Several greenstone knapping sites have been found below the main peak, and following the strike of the tuff exploited at nearby Pike O'Stickle in the neolithic period. The sites on Pike O'Stickle have been well described as the Langdale axe industry, but they have been found to be much more widespread than originally thought. The rock was ...
The style of axe found—it features a chased hammer on the butt end and a semicircular notch at the base—was most common in the 11 th century, which is the era the burials date back to, but was ...
Many of the axes seem to have been intentionally deposited in waterlogged areas, or in fissures in rocks. [34] In Cumbria the majority of axe heads originating from Langdale have been found on the Furness Peninsula. [35] Castlerigg Stone Circle. Indeed, that axe factory is perhaps the most famous and important example of Neolithic activity in ...
Two graves in a dense burial ground discovered in 1851 northeast of Moscow held rather peculiar inclusions along with their deceased residents.