|
Date: |
|
Description: | The blade end of a bronze incomplete socketed axehead including part of the socket. This blade is quite narrow with straight expanding sides but is without obvious blade expansion. The cutting edge is rounded and blunt, though severely affected by corrosive pitting. There is a small casting void in the socket. The surface colour is mainly pale green due to invasive corrosion products, some areas do have better surface survival and are patinated darkbrown. This may be part of an Armorican socketed axe, also refered to as 'Breton axes', a type which are usually non-functional and may have been 'ingot-axes' at least in NW France. Outside NW France they are widespread but sparse. They date to the end of the Bronze Age and into Hallstatt C (late 9th and 8th century BC).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
AXEHEAD
Cast copper alloy blade from…
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
|