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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy, late Bronze Age socketed axe. This fragment represents the lower blade end of the axe. It is sub-square in plan and wedge-shaped in profile. When viewed in plan, the sides of the body are fairly straight with little expansion. The original blade edge no longer exists and the blade tips are worn. There are no casting seams. There is a rectangular depression in the thicker end of the fragment, which represents the very end of the socket. The axe surface is heavily worn. The original surface of the axe survives in small patches and is dark brown. The subsequently exposed surface is bright green, with areas of deeper pitting being yellowy in colour. Break edges are regular and worn, suggesting that the axe was probably deliberately cut for inclusion in a scrap or ?founders? hoard. The worn edges suggest that this was carried out in antiquity. The fragment is 37.5mm long, 48.52mm wide from tip to tip, 39.76mm wide at the break, 13.84mm thick at the broad end and weighs 84.58g | 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: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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