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Pile-dwelling sites at Notranje Gorice and Blatna Brezovica

Item name:Pile-dwelling sites at Notranje Gorice and Blatna Brezovica

Dating:Second half of the 4th millennium BC

On display:The Earliest Stories from the Crossroads

Description

Nine stone axes from Notranje Gorice and one (bottom left) from Blatna Brezovica. Most axes from the pile-dwelling sites of the second half of the 4th millennium BC are made of metaultramaphite, a metamorphic rock. Its deposits are known in the eastern Alps, more precisely the eastern Karavanke to the High Tauern Mountains.

Details

1. Shaft-hole axe, stone, l. 20.3 cm, Inv. No. B 5770.
2. Shaft-hole axe, stone, l. 13.8 cm, Inv. No. B 5040.
3. Shaft-hole axe, stone, l. 7.9 cm, Inv. No. B 5773.
4. Shaft-hole axe, stone, l. 10.1 cm, Inv. No. B 5771.
5. Shaft-hole axe, stone, l. 8.2 cm, Inv. No. B 5772.
6. Flat axe, stone, l. 6.5 cm, Inv. No. B 5781.
7. Flat axe, stone, l. 5 cm, Inv. No. B 5282.
8. Flat axe, stone, l. 7.6 cm, Inv. No. B 5780.
9. Shaft-hole axe, stone, l. 10.2 cm, Inv. No. P 10994.
10. Flat axe, stone, l. 9 cm, Inv. No. B 5782.