What started out as an experiment into usewear/microwear on flint tools turned into an effort to recreate a Neolithic Axe, based upon the fine find that Sid had made recently.

Here are the photo’s of the axehead and then finally hafted onto a piece of oak that I prepared and stripped the bark off using flint tools (again for usewear research). I did cheat however by using modern tools to chop the branch down and to create the hole for the axehead.

I used leather to make sure that the sides of the wood wouldn’t suddenly split and send the axehead flying, so far the wood has held out very well.

I made the axe from an old axe head that was of an Paleolithic design, for butchery and modified it to the right shape an length for a the Neolithic axe and then when it was ready, cheated and ground it using machinery, but the fine polish I used leather with ground sand stone on it and worked for ages until the flint started to look smooth.

I’ll have a go using it soon and post photo’s, in the mean time I’m going to let my little finger heal after I managed to cut, d’oh!

Below is the axehead I based this one on, Sid found it recently whilst out near Brantson Booths.