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Description: | Cast cu-alloy socketed axe dating from the Late Bronze Age, ie. c. 950-800BC. This socketed axe is part of the Ewart Park metalwork assemblage of the Late Bronze Age and is related to socketed axes of the South Eastern Type which is predominant in Kent and East Anglia and found mainly in larger hoards of Late Bronze Age metalwork. This specimen has the typical parallel sides, square socket and an only very slightly splayed blade. The axe is decorated with three raised pellets on each face, just below the double-mouth moulding. The casting flashes have been removed and filed down on the sides and the loop and the blade has been hammered to form a crescent. The axe looks used and re-sharpened. No wood off the wooden haft remains inside the socket. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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