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ISAP 03515, photograph of the right side of stone axe, Aghrane or Castlekelly, County Galway, from the National Museum of Ireland (NMI 1930:122).

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DOI: 10.7486/DRI.8049w069b
Title: ISAP 03515, photograph of the right side of stone axe; Aghrane or Castlekelly, County Galway, from the National Museum of Ireland (NMI 1930:122).
Description: Photograph of the right side of stone axe (ISAP 03515) from Aghrane or Castlekelly, Co. Galway, from the National Museum of Ireland (NMI 1930:122). Macro-ID - Shale. Micro-ID - Shale Ia. Petrology - Grey, parallel laminated fine grained mudstone. Description - Sides - Narrow facetted. Junctions of sides with edge damaged on left, merge on right. Rounded junctions with butt. Edge - Worn and blunted. Minor chipping over entire length, Damaged by a large post-manu. flake scar on Face 1 right side which extends onto the blade area. Blade Area - Large post-manu. flake scar on Face 1 right side. Otherwise regular, well ground. Face - Regular. Well ground. Face 2 flattened along centre. Two to three small remnant flake scars adjacent to both sides on both faces. Butt - Flaked only. Slightly irregular. Laminations in stone clearly visible. Dimensions (length x width x thickness) - 18.1 cm, 8.4 cm, 3 cm, 689g.
Creators: University College Dublin The Discovery Programme
Contributors: Gabriel Cooney Anthony Corns Bernard Gilhooly Rob Sands Stephen Mandal David Stone Lesley Davidson
Creation Date: 1997-01-05
Published Date: 2022-09-09
Published by Digital Repository of Ireland: 12/04/2024
Subjects: Axe Shale
Subjects (Places): Aghrane or Castlekelly Galway
Subjects (Temporal): Neolithic
Types: image
Language: English
Sources: The Irish Stone Axe Project, University College Dublin
Identifiers: ISAP_03515_AP_003
Rights: Copyright The Irish Stone Axe Project, University College Dublin.
Reuse Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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Depositing Organisation: The Discovery Programme