
Late Bronze Age copper alloy hoard. This hoard consisted of 18 objects. The three objects in the foreground are socketed axes. To find out more visit: www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/margate
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Photo taken August 23, 1974.
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Photo taken in the summer of 1973. Excavation of a stack of key guides at the site of the remains of a carpenter's house.
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Photo taken at the Sierra Leone Museum in Freetown in 1968.
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Photo taken during the summer of 1974.
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Photo taken in the summer of 1974
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Photo taken in 1981 or 1982. Scale in centimetres.
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Photo taken in the summer of 1973. The guides were obviously in a container of some sort, which has decomposed.
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Photo taken in 1968 in the Sierra Leone Museum, Freetown. Scale in centimetres. Short discussions of bored stones in west Africa can be found in the following sources: Oliver Davies, THE QUATERNARY IN THE COASTLANDS OF GUINEA (Glasgow, 1964), pp. 196 -199. Oliver Davies, WEST AFRICA BEFORE THE EUROPEANS (London, 1967), p. 203 John H. Atherton, "Speculations on Functions of Some Prehistor... (Visit the photo page for the full description)
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called a 'dodecaeder'. I've seen 3 of them now, in three different museums. I was told there are between 10 and 30 found in Europe. It is thought to be an instrument for landscape mesurement but nobody really knows for sure...
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