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Description: | A fragment of a bronze socketed axehead (27mm in surviving length, 47mm in width), only the blade end and the end of the socket survive, the socket is filled with earth. There are no signs of deliberate breakage on this axehead, the break is old and worn. There is some hammer flanging on the sides at the tips of the expanded blade. The cutting edge has been badly affected by invasive corrosion along the whole edge. Both faces are also affected by flaking causing areas of the surface to be lost. Where affected by corrosion there is a pale green patina, elsewhere this axehead has a dark brown patina. This socketed axehead is 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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