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Description: | Middle Bronze Age late palstave axe, Penard industrial phase, c.1300-1200BC. Possibly Type Roundhay Trident varient. Three decorative converging ribs on the blade just after the stop, one side loop. One nick out of the cutting edge. The butt end is broken off and the remainder of the haft end is badly distorted, with flanges and stop flattened on one surface, and the whole bent down to that surface, with some cracks in the flanges on the other surface. Yellowish metal, no patina. Length 127.6, width (blade tip to tip) 50.64mm, width across centre (including loop) 44,l3mm, width across break 30.65mm, thickness across centre 33.4mm, weight 497.8g. | Subjects: | Bronze Age Penard | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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