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Description: | Complete bronze looped socketed axe. Square-sectioned mouth, rounded corners. Sides expanding out slightly, straight blade. Prominent, angular collar at mouth. Two close-set horizontal moulded ridges below collar on all sides. Side loop joins lower ridge. Black/grey concretion within ridges and below loop on one side. Uneven seams. Clay core intact to top of mouth. Slight bronze disease. L: 132.5 W. mouth: 37.5 B. mouth: 41 Socket dims.: 26 x 29 B. loop: 6-8.5. Part of a hoard of 68 Armorican socketed axeheads. | Subjects: | Armorican | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Worrell, Sally - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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