Polished Stone Axe
Polished Stone Axes date from the Neolithic or "New Stone Age" (4,000 - 2,000 BC). This axe was found in Ballyportry South, County Clare. The Neolithic people were Irelands first farmers, and domesticated animals and plants which are known to have been introduced by these farmers include cattle, sheep/goats (the bones of these animals were very similar in during the Neolithic), pigs, wheat and barley.
Ref: 1933.1261
National
Museum of Ireland, Irish Antiquities Division Collection
Neolithic Collection
Stone
Axe Collection
Tools and
Equipment Collection
Photograph appears courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland
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