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Description: | Fragment of cast copper alloy Middle Bronze Age palstave axe. This fragment represents a fraction of the sternum of the axe and the butt end. It is subrectangular in plan, with the broken end having a diagonal break and is wedge shaped in profile, tapering towards the butt. There is a shallow flange on the fragment, where the original, higher flange has tapered to the butt end. The fragment is pitted and abraded. The original surface has a dark green patina, with exposed areas being light green. The break edge is worn, but very flat, as if the axe had been broken deliberately, possibly for inclusion in a scrap hoard. The fragment is 30.32mm long, 21.36mm wide, 8.2mm thick, 11.3mm thick at the flange and weighs 25.01g. | 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 | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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