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Description: | Plain socketed axehead.
From EMAB - 'A late Bronze Age socketed axehead was found in April or May 1967. The axehead, corroded but intact, is plain; the socket retained some of the wooden haft when found - this wooden part is now missing. Length 104 mm; edge width 53mm; and the socket is 25 mm by 34 mm internally.'
From Thoroton: Socketed axe, plain type. Ind. Phase X- Ewart Park. LBA. Corroded when found but intact. The socket retained some of its wooden haft when found, this is now missing, which allows a view of the internal casting. It is in good condition and has a brown patina which is overlain by green bronze disease towards the blade. From Emab - Found in April or May 1967.
From Thoroton: Holme Pierrepont, SK 613 395. From old card index - SK 614394. Found in washing plant at Colwick Quarry, c. April-May 1967 in gravel from the above grid reference point on pit on former Holme Pierrepont side of the Trent, adjacent to area of wooden piles and brushwood in clay. Given by workmen at Colwick pit on behalf of Hoveringham Gravels Ltd, 1st August 1967.
Accession number: NCM 1967-162 | Subjects: | Bronze Age arms and armour (polearms)? Nottingham and Notts. | Temporal: | 800-600BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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