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| Keywords: Jadeite axe from Breamore, Hampshire.jpg Jadeite axe found near Breamore Hampshire in the late 19th century The precise findspot is unknown but it was somewhere near Marsh Farm gbmapping SU154177 It is 206 mm long 67 mm wide at the cutting edge and 36 mm wide at the top It was broken in prehistoric times at the top but the chip at the bottom was apparently caused when Mrs Jeans of Marsh Farm tossed it out of a window because she had been using it as a paper knife but found that it tore paper rather than cut It was acquired by J W Brooke who sold it to the Wiltshire Archaeological Society in 1916 It is now in the Wiltshire Museum Devizes Petrological analysis has shown that the axehead is Alpine jadeite and that it probably came from a free-standing block near Pontinvrea/Giovo Ligure Liguria in the Mont Beigua massif near Genoa The precise date of this axe or its arrival in Britain are uncertain but two other jadeite axe-heads or fragments of such found in Britain have been found in a dated context to the early Neolithic period 3900 to 3800 BC own Pasicles 2014-04-09 cc-zero Uploaded from Mobile Android 1 0beta13 Breamore Prehistoric England Prehistoric jade axe heads Stone Age Britain Wiltshire Museum Taken with Vodafone Smart III | ||||
