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Description: | Complete cast copper-alloy Late Bronze Age socketed axe of South-Eastern class A1. The axe is rectangular in plan and wedge shaped in profile. The mouth of the socket is sub-circular and has a double mouth-moulding. The sides of the axe are straight and flare only slightly towards the blade end. The cutting edge and blade tips are missing. The edges are now chipped and abraded. The side loop is intact and is 21.04mm long and 12.64mm wide. There is a casting seam on both side edges, which is also visible across the loop. The original surface survives well with a dark green patina, but is abraded and pitted. Exposed surfaces are lighter green and brown. The axe is 104.28mm long, 37.06mm wide across the remains of the blade edge. The socket has an external diameter of 39.82mm and an internal diameter of 30.76mm. The axe is 33.48mm at the thickest point. It weighs 237.65g. Examples are recorded in Schmidt and Burgess 1981, 'Bronze Age axes of Northern Britain', plate 85, number 1279 and from the Petters Hoard, Egham, Surrey (Needham 1990, 28-31 figs. 2-3). South-eastern axes are diagnostic of the Ewart Park phase of the late Bronze Age c.1000-800 BC (Needham et al. 1998, Archaeological Journal, 154, pages 93-8). | Subjects: | South-Eastern class A1 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McDonald, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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