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Description: | A fragment of an early-middle Bronze Age, cast, copper alloy - bronze, axe head or palstave. Broken, small, rounded, rectangular or elongate 'D' shape butt fragment with wedge shaped section tapering to the rounded 'D' shaped end. Green and pale brown coloured, slightly pitted and corroded surface with some spots of arrested bronze disease. This fragment is likely to date to 2500-1050BC. Ref. History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing 1995, page 1-2, Detector Finds 5, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 2002, page 54-58 fig. 2 and Bronze Age Metal Work in Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich Museum Service 1977, second Edition 1997, page 19-23 fig. 2, 5, 13-16. The fragment is 22.42mm long, 22.38mm wide, 5.3mm thick and weighs 11.9g.
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