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.

Lucy Harnden brought this polished stone axe head to BBC Guernsey's outside broadcast event at the Guernsey Museum. It was found by her great grandmother Eliza Henry about a hundred years ago in ...

Thousands of painted pottery fragments and stone axe heads were uncovered at the site, suggesting that hundreds of people lived there. The size of the community rivaled that of Bronze Age Troy.

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Neolithc stone axe head found in Parliament Fields, Toxteth Park in 1866. The surface is flaked, from the chipping of the stone to form the shape, and the cutting edge is polished to sharpen it.

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 ...

Neolithc stone axe head found in waterlogged deposits at Tranmere Pool, Wirral. It was discovered in the 19th century with part of its wooden handle still attached but that was not conserved and soon ...