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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1879; Classification(s): weapons, axe (weapon); Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.110-1879]
Description: The blade is large and crescent shaped with a central dip, and attached by a rivet with a petalled copper washer with a narrow but solid socket for the haft, forged with a medial ridge around the rear. The haft is of wood, reinforced at the junction with the blade with three iron strips, the out two twisted, at the front, bound on with leather thongs, and an iron plate with a dagged top at the rear. Above the blade is a copper alloy ferrule, decorated with geometrical ornament, and a small iron top spike. At the bottom of the haft is another section bound with leather thongs | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | axe (weapon) Unknown weapons | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1879 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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