melthebell Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 maybe there wont be a body to find..... if you're going all that way just to brain someone then you might as well go the whole way and have a "picnic" too well he will have an axe to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Went up this weekend again, still couldnt find it. If you want to go looking for it Megalithic then it was near the stoen circle on Moscar Moor. I'd come off of Stanage Edge at High Neb, walked on the path under the cliff and then at Crow Chin, ie the southern end of the rocks where the path kinks, took a bearing in the stone circle at Hordron Edge and set off. I guess about 100m from the edge was where I found it, sadly it was well into the heathery stuff which makes searching almost impossible. If you do find it I apologise profusely for the blood on it (might want to wait till it rains...) I've nothing more infectious than the common cold though :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalithic Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 "Needle in a haystack" springs to mind. I'd be happy to search with you though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 "Needle in a haystack" springs to mind. That thought had crossed my mind a few times yes.....:-( Might wait till the burn off the heather next time up there and go ratting about for it after that. It's not as if the axe is going anywhere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Obelix...a stone circle...a stone hand axe... Do we have long to wait for the best bit of the joke, yet? The suspense is killing me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Sorry to torpedo you but I'm afraid there is no joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choogling Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Dont think suitable stone exists in the area for making a hand axe unless it was a chance shape removed from a river bed, i expect the clever ones on here will soon be making comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalithic Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Dont think suitable stone exists in the area for making a hand axe unless it was a chance shape removed from a river bed, i expect the clever ones on here will soon be making comment. Stone was traded far and wide. Just because there may not be suitable stone available locally doesn't mean they didn't have axes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Stone was traded far and wide. Just because there may not be suitable stone available locally doesn't mean they didn't have axes. And there is a stone circle not that far off as well which was a common meeting location. That's what I was thinking - the axe was chert which is not the sort of rock you find in the gritstone areas there so it would have to have been brought in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalithic Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 And there is a stone circle not that far off as well which was a common meeting location. That's what I was thinking - the axe was chert which is not the sort of rock you find in the gritstone areas there so it would have to have been brought in. Yup plenty of chert around the white peak so sourcing was no problem. Btw, i made this from Wiltshire flint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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