Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

The newly renovated spaces include the Paleolithic, Neolithic ... as a Paleolithic hand axe and the Bronze Agricultural Design, a Treasure that illustrates Bronze Age farming and religious ...

The Orkney Islands are rich in prehistoric sites, and it was thought, at first, that the slab could be the capstone of a type of Bronze Age burial ... with rubble. Neolithic axe heads were not ...

This small stone axehead is made from volcanic tuff and dates from the neolithic period ... We can only theorise about how the axe came to be in this unusual location. It may be that the island ...