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Description: | Iron axe, possibly medieval. Length: 145mm; width of blade: 80.1mm; thickness (butt): 35.4mm; mass: 544g. Tapering profile. Blade flares in plan. Triangular Socket (length: 23.5mm, width: 12.1mm) with lugs on the lower edges. Corroded brown surface. One tip of the cutting-edge is missing. A broadly similar axe with more pronounced lugs and the addition of a makers mark is included in the: "London Museum Medieval Catalogue", Ward-Perkins, 1940, number 3 (A7673), p63 and figure 14.
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