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Description: | the blade end of an Early/Middle Bronze Age axehead. It has an expanded crescentic blade with recurved ends. The blade has a marked dent, possibly resulting from use damage. It has been tooled to give a rounded blade edge . It is incomplete, with a narrow rectangular cross-section visible at the broken terminal. The form and lack of moulding seams on the sides suggests that it is likely to be a fragment of a flanged or winged axe rather than a palstave. There are slight indications of the beginnings of possible wings or flanges at the break. There is extensive corrosion pocking on the surfaces and exposed pale green invasive corrosion products visible. The axe head measures 60.34mm in length, 54.77mm in width and is 13mm thick at the broken edge. It weighs 173g. It is probably of Early/Middle Bronze Age transitional date, of around 1500 BC if it is from a flanged axe. | 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
-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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