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Description: | A very worn cast copper alloy Bronze Age Arreton Down type flange flat axe. The axe is incomplete, missing the butt and one of the blade tips and only traces of the original surface remain. The sides are straight and have slight flanges that have been cast with the object and curve out sharply at the blade end to produce an expanded crescentic cutting edge. The length is 76.5mm, the width at the blade end is 51.0mm, the width at the truncated butt end is 22.2mm, the maximum thickness is 11.4mm and the weight is 118.61g.
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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