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Description: | Cast copper alloy flat axe fragment with rounded butt end and broken blade where the rest of the blade is missing below the stop, if there was one. The butt or haft end is worn into a substantial curve, which makes it look like examples of flat axes from the Mile-Cross - Aylesford phase (c.2000-1900 BC), such as one illustrated in Needham (1998) on page 124, Fig.25, No.48. But the shape of the curve may be deceiving as it is uneven and could be worn at the edges from a butt end that was more squared off originally, and therefore from the earlier Brithdir ? Butterwick phase (c.2150-2000 BC), like examples of Class 3 axes illustrated in Needham (1998) on page 123, Fig.24, Nos.28 & 33. The sides are not flanged but could just be worn, and the width is narrow.
The axe fragment is 59.3 mm long, 41 mm wide, 4 mm thick at the butt end and 11 mm thick at the broken blade end, and 105.35g in weight.
Similarly worn flat axes with rounded butt ends have been found in Cornwall from Trenovissick, St. Blazey (see Pearce 1983, p.400 & 562, Plate 1, No.7b&c), but these are decorated examples.
Early Bronze Age c.2150-1900 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: | -2150
-1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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