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Description: | Bronze axe head, socketed, decoration - five grooves (cast), Type, 'Bag' (Coles 1959), Dowris - Dungiven variant (Schmidt & Burgess 1981).
"Socketed bronze axe from Aberdeenshire (1000-600BC)."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Socketed bronze axe-heads were produced in the later Bronze Age from about 1100-750 BC. There are several different styles. They were cast in a two-piece mould, and the shape is hollow, rather like a bag. They often have cast decoration and and most have two longitudinal internal ridges perpendicular to the blade. The axe would have enclosed the end of a kneeshaft. This is a a Dungiven variant of the 'bag' type of socketed axe. It has a rounded section and a recurved blade. The decoration is cast, with two rings around the collar, and one at the level of the loop. This is a good example of a type of axe produced late in the Bronze Age and comes from Aberdeenshire."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1200 BC-600 BC; LBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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