A Nordic Neolithic (Danish) black fine-grained rock battle axe. 4,000 - 2000 BC., 13.8 cm long. Provenance: The Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green (M1620). Purchased by Lord McAlpine in Copenhagen, Literature: 'Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green', Ashmolean Museam, Oxford, 1987 (No. 4.174 p.74)