The Manx Stone Axe-head Project: Progress Report

Katie Kewley, University of Liverpool

The first stage of the Manx Stone Axe-head Project is now complete. The axe-heads housed in the Manx Museum’s archives have been analysed and compared to collections from around the Irish Sea region. Until recently, these stone axe-heads had only been subjected to a cursory analysis as part of a larger, on-going study of axe-heads undertaken in the United Kingdom. A more comprehensive review of the Manx collection was therefore overdue. A database containing the morphological, petrological and contextual information available for each artefacts has been created. This lecture introduces the Project’s findings so far and discusses the relevance of axe-heads to our current understanding of the Manx Neolithic in its Irish Sea context.

Please note that this lecture will NOT be recorded or live-streamed.

2016-17 History & Heritage Lecture Series