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The Langdale axe industry (or factory) is the name given by archaeologists to a Neolithic centre of specialised stone tool production in the Great Langdale area of the English Lake District. [1] The existence of the site, which dates from around 4,000–3,500 BC, [2] was suggested by chance discoveries in the 1930s.
Great Langdale is known to archaeologists as the source of a particular type of Neolithic polished stone axe head, created on the slopes of the Pike of Stickle and traded all over prehistoric Great Britain and Europe.
A Neolithic stone axe from Cumbria, now in the British Museum. [2] Fell was interested in the analysis of individual axes. [3] In 1949 she worked on Grahame Clark's excavations at the Star Carr Mesolithic site in Yorkshire. Around the same time she began studying the Langdale axe industry in Cumbria, the project for which she is perhaps best ...
The Langdale Pikes form a raised rocky parapet around the southern and eastern edges of a high tableland centred upon Thunacar Knott.Pike of Stickle stands at the western end of this system and its crags fall south from the summit, presenting an arresting view from the valley floor 2,000 feet (600 m) below, or from further afield.
Stickle Tarn is the larger of the two waterbodies, a 50 ft (15 m) deep corrie tarn with the level increased by a stone faced dam. It is used to supply water to the residents of Great Langdale. Codale Tarn is a shallow pool set amid rough ground, a little to the north east. [1] Blea Rigg has a number of named tops in addition to the summit.
The change from Mesolithic to Neolithic in Cumbria was gradual and continual. The change "is marked by the appearance of ... leaf-shaped arrowheads, scrapers and polished stone axes together with pottery and ceremonial and funerary monuments". [16] Great Langdale, site of the Langdale Axe Factory
Lingmoor Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, situated eight kilometres (five miles) west of Ambleside.The fell reaches a height of 469 m (1,540 ft) and divides the valleys of Great Langdale and Little Langdale.
The bridge, which has subsequently been widened, carries a road over Great Langdale Beck. It is in stone, and consists of a single segmental arch with a level parapet. [122] II: The Nab: 1702 A stone house with a slate roof, two storeys, and five bays.