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Description: | The blade end of a large socketed bronze axehead. The blade edge is only slightly convex and there is a gradual expansion from the sides of the body to the blade. There are no definate breakage marks but there is some variable corrosion which has caused loss of the surface in places, especially along about half of the blade edge and where some agricultural scrapes have occurred. The surface is otherwise patinated medium and dark green and in reasonably good condition. Some deep and some fine linear score lines survive on the surface, from use and/or sharpening. The size and form of this axe fragment all suggest that this is part if a sompting form (or related to this form) axe of the final Bronze Age (LBA 4 or the 'Llyn Fawr' phase) of circa 800-700 BC. These axes are relatively rare.
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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