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Description: | Almost complete copper alloy Bronze Age flanged axe. The axe is in generally poor condition. It is subrectangular in plan and an elongated lentoid in profile. It flares gently at the blade end and the cutting edge is missing. The exposed edge is now heavily worn, chipped and pitted. The blade points are also worn down and the surfaces are similarly heavily abraded and chipped. When viewed in plan, the body of the axe is of equal width along its length. The butt of the axe is damaged with a rough diagonal break across one corner. The flanges of the axe are heavily worn. They rise above and below the body of the axe with approximately equal height. There is no backstop. The original surface of the axe survives only partially to one side. It has a dark green patina with patches of orangey brown. The subsequently exposed, heavily abraded and pitted surface is midgreen with dots of bright green corrosion product. There is a significant patch of bright corrosion product to the side of one flange. Exposed bronze coloured patches on one flange are due to either damage at the time of recovery of subsequent interference by the finder.
The axe is 92.4mm long. It is 20.56mm across the body and 34.82mm from tip to tip across the remains of the blade. The axe is 14.02mm thick at the centre of the flanges. The flanges rise for approximately 2mm at either side of the axe body. The object weighs 123.69g. Dr Paul Sealey has identified the axe as a long-flanged axe of Arreton type. This dates the axe to 1650-1500BC. | 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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