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Description: | Middle Bronze Age cast copper alloy Palstave axe blade fragment. Blade width 51.5mm, length >71.5mm, maximum thickness 18mm. Weight 239g. The blade has a central ridge, and there are casting seams along the centre of each side. The cutting edge is only slightly curved, and the edges are angular. Best local parallel is a side-looped palstave from Runhall (HER 12767), which has a similarly straight-edged blade. (c. 1500-1150BC) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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