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Description: | A small copper-alloy narrow-butted flat 'axe-chisel' with slight cross 'stop' bevel. Complete except for slight recent losses from the two ends of the convex blade and two small chips from the blade edge. There are three linear (plough?) recent abrasions on one face. There is some visible green invasive corrosion, especially along the blade facets, causing slight pitting in places but elsewhere the surfaces are good with a mid to dark brown patination. The body is a thin sub-trapezoidal form with straight sides on the butt-half broadening to the expanded blade. The long profile is lenticular or slightly angled at the central, thickest part where the slight 'stop' cross bevel occurs. The blade also has a slight crescentic sharpening facet parallel to and circa 8mm from the edge. There is no 'flanging' to the sides of the axe. It measures 87mm in length, 34mm in width across the blade, 19mm in width across the butt and 8.9mm in thickness. The size and form the 'axe-chisel,' although having slight 'stop' bevels, is very similar to that excavated from a dated context at Worlingham (WGM 007), Suffolk, 2001 found in association with Beaker pottery. The Worlingham 'axe-chisel' is dated to about 2100 BC. The stop-bevels on this suggest a slightly later date, probably around 2000 BC for this specimen. It may be significant that a ring-ditch cropmark, probably from a ploughed out round barrow, exists about 170m to the SE in the same field, though the distance is somewhat greater than what one might expect from plough drag.
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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