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Description: | Romano British model or votive axe. The blade is trapezoidal but with a slightly concave inner edge. The haft is of sub-circular section, although this becomes rectangular beyond the blade. A single transverse engraved line decorates one face of the blade. Haft length 33mm, diameter 4.5mm. Blade length 25mm, width 7 ?? 11mm. Form close to that of an example from Alcester, Oxfordshire (M.J. Green ??Romano-British Non-ceramic model objects in South-East Britain??, Archaeological Journal 32 (1975) fig. 2 no. 9. | Subjects: | Axe | 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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