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Description: | A late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axe of South-Eastern Class A1 dating to 1000-800BC. The axe has a double mouth moulding with the loop (22.98mm long) on one side below the lower moulding, a square socket and internal ribs. Below the lower moulding on one side is a loop for hafting. The blade edge is expanded and there are developed blade tip hollows. The axe is undecorated. There are some deep scratches on one face and there is damage to the cutting edge. Width of cutting edge is 43.08mm. Patchy mid-dark green patina. Similar axes have been found in Ewart Park metalwork assemblages and as single finds dating to the late Bronze Age such as the Petters Hoard, Egham, Surrey (Needham 1990) and elsewhere (Rohl & Needham 1998:134-136). The axe is 87.65mm long, 45.92mm wide, 37.53mm thick and it weighs 194g.Rohl, B. and Needham, S. 1998. The Circulation of Metal in the British Bronze Age. British Museum Occasional Paper no. 102. British Museum Press, London.
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