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Description: | Copper alloy early Bronze Age flat Axehead, 2150-1500 BC of the Migdale-Marnoch tradition. The axehead has a thin narrow rounded butt. The body is thickened at the middle and thins again to a splayed blade and cutting edge. The cutting edge has a small nick in it caused corrosion. The axehead has very slight flanges along its sides. The axehead weights 64g and measures 90.3mm in length from butt to cutting edge. At the thickest point across the body of the axehead, it measures 6.9mm and the measurment across the blade is 32.8mm. The surface of the axehead is smooth and undecorated but there are some small patches of bronze disease on both sides.
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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