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Description: | Bronze socketed axe, one item within a hoard. Most of axe with adjoining fragment from socket. Small part of socket missing ?? probably ancient breaks. Mouth and collar mouldings, otherwise undecorated. Two short internal ribs (Ehrenberg 1981, type 5a). Large loop. Splayed convex blade edge has some blunting (possibly recent?). Patinated dark green with extensive surface invasive corrosive pocks and encrustations (often paler green). Some recent (plough?) scrapes on surface. This axe is southern-eastern type socketed axe and is Late Bronze Age in date. | Subjects: | South-Eastern type | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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