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Description: | An incomplete late Bronze Age socketed axe, Ewart Park type dating from c.1000-800BC. The mouth is roughly square in plan, is slightly flared and has a single moulding. There is is a slightly raised tranverse line moulding (c.3.5mm width) running around the body c.11mm from the rim, followed by four ribs running longitudinally down both faces and extending approximately half way down the body. The side loop is broken off and the internal length of loop would have been c.12mm. The loop starts c.15mm down from the rim. Casting lines run longitudinally down each side and these appear to have been roughly filed. The blade edge is damaged and it does not appear to be expanded, although this is not certain. There is little of the original surface left on the blade edge. There are no internal ribs.
One of the longer sides of the mouth is damaged and a small fragment has broken off (this has also been weighed and photographed). The patina is brown, although much of the surface on one face is missing. There are blue and green corrosion products on the inside and also on the loose fragment.
The axe is 96.40mm in length, the width across the mouth is 38.16mm, the width of the cutting edge (tip to tip) is 39.82mm, the thickness across the mouth is 34.26mm, the depth of the socket is c.79mm and it weighs 165.59g. The fragment is 18.68mm in length, 11.17mm in width, 3.06mm thick and weighs 1.05g. | 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 | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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