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Bucks museum offers $250 reward for Indian ax head

AP 02/24/00

DOYLESTOWN (AP) -- The Bucks County Historical Society is offering a $250
reward for the return of a Stone Age ax head that was stolen from the
Fonthill Museum.

The ax head is estimated to be 6,000 to 8,000 years old and was housed on a
wall at the 90-year-old concrete castle.

It was last seen about 4 p.m. Jan. 22 and was discovered missing two days
later.

Dozens of people toured the castle that weekend.

"Although the item in question may not have had a high dollar value, any
theft of artifacts from a museum transcends the bounds of ordinary crime,"
said Douglas Dolan, the society's executive director.

The 6-by-10-inch, oblong stone ax is gray and has a groove where a handle
would have been attached. Historians believe it was made by American
Indians.

Archaeologist Henry C. Mercer acquired the ax head in the 1890s and later
displayed it in his study at Fonthill. He lived there until his death in
1930.

Dolan said it's hard to put a dollar value on the missing ax head.

It's "a piece of our heritage," Dolan said.

"In that regard, as a historical link to our past, this item, like all other
historical artifacts, is priceless,'' Dolan continued. "You can't measure it
from a dollar value."
 

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