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Description: | A miniature lead axehead, possibly a Roman votive object. Measuring 42mm in overall length. On end it is of square section, approximately 10mm by 11mm, and continues in this form over a distance of c.18mm. In the broader dimension it is pierced with a hole of slightly more than 5mm diameter, the edge of which is 10mm from the end. Just beyond the perforation, the metal fans out into a thinner axe-like shape, the outer tips of which would originally have been some 34mm apart, although one corner is now broken away. Between these points the blade rises in convex form. Most probably, its use was as a votive object. Compare a smaller example from Isleham (Cambs.), SF-4AB493 . | 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: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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