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Description: | A small cast bronze fragment probably part of the butt of an axe. This fragment is roughly rectangular in shape and measures 22mm by 16mm in size and it 5mm in thickness at its thickest point and 3mm thick at its terminal. The axe has a dark brown patina with small patches of powdery green corrosion visible. A small portion of the side flanges survives, the butt is slightly convex. One side has the remains of a central ridge or a possible casting seam. This suggests that this fragment is from a palstave rather than from a flanged axe, and therefore is middle Bronze Age in date (C1500-1150 BC). | 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
-1150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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