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Description: | Middle Bronze Age copper alloy unlooped palstave-chisel (or small axe) with sunken shield-shaped area below stop ridge on both faces and crescentic blade. One corner of the butt end is missing. The surfaces are patinated dark brown wit some ancient and recent pitting, the latter exposing verdigris. Cf. an example form Acle (HER 39900). Length 107mm. Blade width 25mm. Maximum thickness (at stop ridges) 17.5mm. Weight 114.12g. Early Middle Bronze Age, the Acton Park phase, c.1400 BC. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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