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Watercolour showing finds from Liffs Low, including macehead, haematite, and boars tusk
Copyright Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust
Watercolour showing finds from Liffs Low, including macehead, haematite, and boars tusk
Site name : Liffs Low
Site type : Burial site
Time period : Neolithic
Material : Bone or antler; Flint; Haematite; Stone
Object type : Grave goods; Tool; Weapon; Personal item
Museum number : 1995.195; J93.550; J93.569
This is one of Llewellynn Jewitt's important group of watercolours of Thomas Bateman's collection. It shows some of the finds from the Neolithic burial from Liffs Low.
In the centre is an antler macehead. This is still the only example of an antler macehead from Derbyshire. The other objects are flints, a boar's tusk and a piece of haematite. All are examples from larger groups of similar material found during the excavation. Jewitt does not seem to have drawn every item in Bateman's collection.
Bibliography :
Bateman, T. , 1848
Glossary:
Barrow
Cist
Excavation
Haematite
Llewellynn Jewitt
Macehead
Neolithic
Thomas Bateman
Related objects
Macehead from Liffs Low
Two boar tusks and two pieces of haematite from Liffs Low
Watercolour showing pot, two flints and bead from Brown Edge
One of the axeheads from Liffs Low
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