Fibrolite ax
The Neolithic Fibrolite ax is a stone ax made from a rare sillimanite rock . Fibrolite beile besides those of dolerite , hornblende and pyroxene jadeite and eclogite , in the Brittany very common.
- The fibrolite axes in the Morbihan department come from the "Quelfénec mine" south of Plussulien .
- The stone axes from a limited region of Finistere north of Brest come, as far as investigated, from small local outcrops .
Apart from the special flat axes from the great burial mounds of Carnac, these are medium-sized, flat, pointed-nosed axes and small to very small devices. Some of them were designed as pendants and pierced, so they were used as talismans . The rock is difficult to work with due to its hardness and density. Fibrolite is most widespread in the vicinity of the mining areas, where up to 25% of axes are made of this material. Outside these areas, their share is a maximum of 5%. Fibrolite axes were certainly quality devices because of their hardness and elasticity.
In the Mané-er-Hroek tumulus (Morbihan), a buried person had been given 90 fibrolite and eleven alpine jadeite axes .
literature
- C.-T. Le Roux: Stone axes of Brittany and the Marches. In: Th. Mck. Clough, WA Cummins (Ed.): Stone Ax Studies. Archaeological, pretological, experimental, and ethnographic (= Council for British Archeology. Research Reports 23). Council for British Archeology, London 1979, ISBN 0-900312-63-7 , pp. 49-56, ( full text; PDF; 148 kB; English ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.lda-lsa.de/landesmuseum_fuer_vorgeschichte/fund_des_monats/2008/januar/ (last accessed on December 14, 2012)