Button-shaped hatchet 


The hatchet was made during the Neolithic period, the younger Stone Age. It is 10.5 cm long and 6.5 cm wide. The axe was made by hand in grey stone - by honing, drilling and polishing. Its surface is decorated with bands of engraved lines through the entire length of the axe and laterally under the shank. Axes were mainly used for work. This specimen has a blunt, even rounded blade. This with the aforementioned decoration may indicate that it could have been a sign of power like a mace. Set on a wooden handle, it looked like today's highland “ciupaga” /type of shepherd's axe/. Drilling the hole required dozens of hours of work. Over the millennia, as the object lay in the ground, the wooden handle decayed.