A small polished axe from Sittingbourne probably of late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, measuring 3.75 inches in length and 1.75 inches in breadth (maximum measurements). Whilst in the possession of Gloucester Museum, the axe was submitted for petrological identification to the Sub-Committee set up by the S.W. Group of Museums. The material was established as a porcellanite which occurs in screes on the slopes of Tievebulliagh Hill, County Antrim. The axe, therefore, comes under Group IX of the S.W. Group's classification and is numbered 189 in the list attached to its First Report. Maidstone Museum Acc. No. 1954. It was given to Gloucester Museum by the late Mr F. Sessions in October 1918. (1) The Petrological Identification of Stone Axes: Group IX. 189 Axe, Sittingbourne, Kent. Gloucester Museum. (2)

<1> PPS 7 NS 1941 64 (OS Card Reference). SKE48608.

<2> Arch Cant 68 1954 209 (L R A Grove) (OS Card Reference). SKE35430.

<3> PPS 7 NS 1941 64 (A Keiller S Piggott and F S Wallis) (OS Card Reference). SKE48609.