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Description: | A bronze small complete shouldered socketed axehead. This axehead has a rectangular socket with a small angular collar. There is a small loop with casting hollow in the ajoining part of the body. The body narrows from the socket end and then sharply expands with concave shoulderd which then gently expands, with slightly concave sides, to the cutting edge. The cutting edge is extremely worn and rounded. This axehead is patinated medium dark green with small patches and pocks of pale green invasive corrosion. Shouldered axes are extremely rare in England and NW Europe, although several of a different form are known from Ireland. O'Connor lists only one, from Swaffham, Cambridegshire, in 1980 from England and only three from North eastern France, these examples are believed to date from the Late Bronze Age 2 or the Wilburton phase c. 1150-1000 BC. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -1150
-1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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