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Description: | Complete bronze socketed axe, one item within a hoard. Mouth and collar moulding, otherwise undecorated. Two long internal ribs (Ehrenberg 1981, type 5b). Convex blade edge has same ancient edge damage -one nick and two (one with invasive corrosion products) small detached ?flakes?. Patinated medium/dark green with extensive corrosion pocks and encrustations (often pale green). Some slight (plough) scrapes/scratches to surface on one face. Fragments of wood were found within the socket, they are probably tap root and relatively recent. This axe is a south-eastern type and Late Bronze Age in date. | 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: | -1000
-800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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