Rachel Mottram from Sheffield has this Stone Age axe-head which she thinks is 5000 years old. "My father found it in a field in in 1937 in a field in Wootton near Beverley, Hull. His uncle had a ...

It is quite obviously an axe head, but has undergone an interesting transformation of usage from a simple tool to a valuable currency due to the lack of any solid stone on these corral islands.

The "polishing boulder", found in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, would have been used to make stone axe heads more than 5,000 years ago. It is only the second undisturbed polissoir to ...

From full-length axes built to split cordwood and fell trees to simple hatchets that you can stash in your pack for your next ...