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The wear patterns on polissoirs have helped archaeologists understand the specific techniques used to create polished stone axes and other tools. Different types of grooves and surfaces indicate various motions and pressures were used systematically, revealing sophisticated knowledge of how different stones respond to different polishing ...
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])
In archaeology, a celt / ˈ s ɛ l t / is a long, thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, hoe, or axe. A shoe-last celt was a polished stone tool used during the early European Neolithic for felling trees and woodworking.
Excavations have revealed several buildings, both ritual and domestic, and the works suggest there are likely to be more in the vicinity. Pottery, cremated animal bones, stone tools, and polished stone mace heads have been discovered. [39] [40] Some of the stone slabs are decorated with geometrical lozenges typical of other Neolithic sites. [41]
The identifying characteristic of Neolithic technology is the use of polished or ground stone tools, in contrast to the flaked stone tools used during the Paleolithic era. Neolithic people were skilled farmers, manufacturing a range of tools necessary for the tending, harvesting and processing of crops (such as sickle blades and grinding stones ...
Since the first excavations in the 1950s, the archaeological site at Bylany has yielded a varying degree of Neolithic artefacts including pottery fragments, lithics, grinding tools, chipped stone (flints), polished stone (axes and adzes), whetstones (abrading, smoothing, and polishing tools), hand stones, and non-moveable pits, postholes, and ...
One structure appears to be 20 metres (66 ft) long by 11 metres (36 ft) wide. Pottery, bones, stone tools and polished stone mace heads were discovered. [55] [56] Perhaps the most important find was the remains of a large stone wall which may have been 100 metres (330 ft) long and 4 metres (13 ft) or more wide.
Later excavations, along with geophysical and topographical surveys, have revealed additional structural remains, increasing the number of probable Neolithic buildings to six and the number of Bronze Age buildings to eight. Many Neolithic artefacts have been found, including polished stone axes, worked bone objects, and grooved ware pottery. [8]