A lovely Neolithic axe made out of jadeite from the Alps; it was mounted and used a amulet in 18th-/19th-century Scotland...https://twitter.com/irarchaeology/status/951863716789792772 …
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Irish Archaeology
A lovely Neolithic axe made out of jadeite from the Alps; it was mounted and used a amulet in 18th-/19th-century Scotland...https://twitter.com/irarchaeology/status/951863716789792772 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Jadeite axes date from c.5000–3700 BC and have a very extensive distribution indeed, from Ireland to Bulgaria & Sicily to Denmark: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/273490638_fig1_Fig-1-Comparative-distribution-across-Europe-of-the-large-jade-alpine-axes-green …pic.twitter.com/Gf0PzlyTjW
A Neolithic jadeite axe found at Falmouth, Cornwall, in the 19th century; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/gBlw7mjjKv
A Neolithic stone axe with partially drilled holes & transverse grooves, either decorative or perhaps to enable suspension, from an early Roman context at Bloomberg Place, London: http://www.romanfindsgroup.org.uk/download.php?id=46 …pic.twitter.com/6sTww7kjNt
9th–13thC Byzantine carvings of the Crucifixion & Elijah on a prehistoric polished axe :) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/472766 …pic.twitter.com/OHup306bP4
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Adrián Maldonado
A Victorian reuse of Bronze Age flint arrowhead as a pendant: https://twitter.com/amaldon/status/1015232088801497090 … :)
Dr Caitlin Green added,
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