Wood
87-39-1197
From: Switzerland | Bern Canton | Lake Moosseedorf | Moosseedorf
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | 87-39-1197 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Neolithic | Swiss Lake Dweller |
| Provenience | Switzerland | Bern Canton | Lake Moosseedorf | Moosseedorf |
| Period | Neolithic |
| Date Made | 4300-2450 BCE |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Yew |
| Description | "Bit of Yew (taxus baccata). Bearing the beautifully well preserved marks of the hatchet. Yew is the only species of wood out of the pileworks, which keeps so well upon drying. (VB 1939) One flat face and one grooved edge. (HNW 1933) |
| Height | 0.6 cm |
| Length | 8.1 cm |
| Width | 2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1987 |
| Other Number | L-37-1197 - Old Museum Number | 26 - Original Number |
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