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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Late Bronze Age faceted socketed axe. The axe is sub rectangular in plan and wedge shaped in profile. The mouth of the axe is sub circular and damaged. The moulding is almost completely missing but a small surviving portion suggests that it was a single moulding. The sides of the axe are straight and flare only slightly towards the blade end. The front and rear faces of the axe are further ?body angled? making the axe faceted with a hexagonal section. The cutting edge and blade tips are missing and the exposed edges are worn and abraded. The side loop is intact and is 22.36mm long and 10.7mm wide. The axe is uncleaned but it is possible to see a casting seam to either side and over the loop. Where it is visible, the original surface survives with a mid green patina, but pitting has exposed lighter green surfaces. It is not possible in its present state to comment further on the surface in terms of decoration or survival, though the axe is presumed to be plain. Earth also fills the socket so that its length cannot be determined. The axe is 101.62mm long, 40.64mm wide across the remains of the blade edge. The socket has an internal diameter of 21.74mm. The axe is 20.68mm at the thickest point. It weighs 186.44g. It dates from the late Bronze Age circa 1150-800 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: | -1150
-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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