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Description: | Late bronze Age complete socketed axe head. Cast in copper alloy. The axe is sub-rectangular in plan, with a single loop cast on sine side. The sides are slightly convex, and expand out at the blade end. The blade is crescentric. Both faces are plain, and have a very slight transverse bevel line indicating the change from the body the blade. There is a slight collar around the socketed end, which appears to be rectangular in cross section. The axe has a sub-triangular profile. Casting lines are visible along both sides of the axe. The surface of the axe is slightly corroded. It is 64mm long and 30mm wide. | 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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