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Description: | Incomplete Romano British copper alloy votive axe, triangular head with broad convex cutting edge and short shaft projecting (5mm) from both sides at broken narrowed butt, both ends appear to be complete, although one is slightly damaged. >36 x 28mm. Axes, mainly from shrines and graves, form the largest group of miniature tools in found from Roman Britain. The form of the head is similar to examples in Green (1975) Archaeological Journal. 132, fig.2, nos.7 and 20, see also Green (1976), 42 and Plate XXVIII n, and (1978), 32.
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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