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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy late Bronze Age socketed axe head. The fragment represents a small part of the lower blade and cutting edge. It is semicircular in plan and wedge-shaped in profile. When viewed in plan, the sides of the body flare out at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. The cutting edge and blade tips are worn. There is evidence of the casting seam to one side of the axe. There is a rectangular aperture in the thicker end of the fragment, which represents the very end of the socket. The surface of the axe is damaged, but it survives mostly intact with a dark green patina. Exposed surfaces are lighter, brighter green. Break edges are worn suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The break edge is also very regular and straight, suggesting that the axe may have been deliberately broken for scrap. The fragment is 24.8mm long, 46.26mm wide from tip to tip, 34.4mm wide at the break, 12.62mm thick at the broad end and weighs 37.82g.
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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