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Description: | Blade portion of bronze socketed axe, probably from a plain axe. One face crushed into socket at break. Crescentic blade edge recurved and severely damaged (in antiquity?). Main break has traces of bronze colour, suggesting a possible recent break; otherwise axe has dark green/brown patina with some paler green corrosion products. Surviving length 65 mm, blade width (incomplete) 50 mm, weight 101.3g. | 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
-700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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