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Description: | Plain socketed bronze axe with large single loop. Complete apart from losses from blade edge and part of surface of one face due to invasive corrosion. Maximum socket dimension transverse to cutting edge. Recent (agricultural?) scratches on one face. Small casting flaw on one face. Apart from obvious corrosion, surface condition appears good. Medium green/brown patina with traces of only slightly tarnish copper alloy showing over c. 60% of one face.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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