This polishing stone is more than 5,000 years old and was once used to sharpen ax heads. Historic England Archive To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be ...

‘Polissoir’, discovered in Valley of Stones nature reserve, was used about 5,000 years ago to hone tools such as axes At first glance it looked like nothing more than a rugged boulder jumbled among ...

DORSET, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a Neolithic polissoir, or polishing stone, has been identified in the Valley of Stones nature reserve in England’s West Country by Jim Rylatt and Anne Teather ...

A place where people with an axe to grind gathered 4,500 years ago has been uncovered by archaeologists and volunteers. An area of abrasive sandstone close to Balfron, near Stirling, has been found to ...

STIRLING, SCOTLAND—An area of abrasive sandstone in central Scotland may have been used as a giant whetstone by Neolithic toolmakers, according to a BBC News report. Volunteers and Stirling Council ...