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Description: | A bronze flat axe of the late Early Bronze Age. It is complete and is a low-flanged axe of Arreton type. There is severe surface pocking due to invasive corrosion, especially on one face and side. Small amounts of deep brown patinated original surface survive, but the axe is mostly a pale to medium green. There is no trace of a central bevel or stop ridge, although a bevel divides the blade end from the axe body. The butt end is gently convex. A few recent plough grazes are present on the surface. The axe is 86mm in length, 46mm at the blade, and is 9mm thick. It weighs 98g. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jane Carr | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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