axe-head

This stone axe-head was the very first tool I owned and, as it happens, pretty much the first owned by Homo sapiens.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Another boy, Smith, offered to the highest bidder a stone axe-head he claimed was Mohawk Indian and deadly, its edge having been impregnated with rattlesnake poison.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Again, my secret liquidity in mice paid off, and the axe-head was mine.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

This stone axe-head was the very first tool I owned and, as it happens, pretty much the first owned by Homo sapiens.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Again, my secret liquidity in mice paid off, and the axe-head was mine.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Another boy, Smith, offered to the highest bidder a stone axe-head he claimed was Mohawk Indian and deadly, its edge having been impregnated with rattlesnake poison.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Twelve months earlier, John had found an exquisite Bronze Age axe-head and several bronze buttons at the same spot and felt a strong hunch there was something very special about this particular patch of the enormous beach.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Twelve months earlier, John had found an exquisite Bronze Age axe-head and several bronze buttons at the same spot and felt a strong hunch there was something very special about this particular patch of the enormous beach.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

For a very long period those remains amount to very little: the odd axe-head or bead or cave painting.

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The Italian name of the movement, fascismo, is derived from fascio, “bundle, political group,” but also refers to the movement's emblem, the fasces, a bundle of rods bound around a projecting axe-head that was carried before an ancient Roman magistrate by an attendant as a symbol of authority and power.

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