What are you looking at? Intrigued? Have a guess. Here is its story.
A couple of years ago a lake we have on our property had dried back further than any one could remember. One day I decided to search along the low water mark for artefacts that may have been thrown or dropped into the lake in by gone days. I found this. How did you go? Did you guess? An aboriginal stone axe head. The grove at the top is where the wooden handle would have been fitted and the base is the smoothed "blade". But as you can see it is damaged. A layer of stone has broken away from the blade surface. What intrigues me is when did it crack? Was it thrown into the lake because it cracked during making and its owner, in his disappointment, cursed himself and threw it away. I know I would have done if I had done all that chipping and smoothing and just when I was nearing the end of the project ruined it? Or was it a favoured axe which eventually simply cracked from regular use and was tossed away into the lake with a sense of loss, just like loosing an old mate? When was it thrown away? Who by? Was there a whole tribe living here and did they watch the scene unfold? So many questions to which there are no answers. May be there's a story here waiting to be told. Intriguing! Where are all the story writers in the land of 365ers/
Margaret, I believe YOU are the storyteller! Such a mystery the discovery of a simple axe head opens up. "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio!" (Hamlet)
