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Description: | Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axe fragment, with mid rib, cutting end only. Probably did not have a side loop. One of the blade tips is broken off. The other tip is quite splayed, indicating that the axe had been sharpened quite a lot. The metal is pitted with little of the original surface remaining. The axe would have been broken in antiquity, possibly for inclusion in a metal worker's hoard. Probably c.1500-1300BC, Acton-Taunton type of metalwork. Length 49.01mm, width (from blade tip to tip) 45.92mm, thickness 13.33mm, weight 96.35g. | 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: | -1500
-1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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