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Description: | An almost complete cast copper alloy socketed axehead of late Bronze Age date. It is broadly rectangular in plan, flaring in width towards the crescentic and enclosed cutting edge. At the other end to the cutting edge the socket is open and square in plan which extends almost to the cutting edge. This gives the axehead a triangular profile. The mouth of the socket has moulded double transverse ribs, the upper of the two being more prominent and forming the upper edge of the socket. Each side of the outer edge has a vertical casting seam, with a small and integrally cast D-shaped side loop, 'D'-shaped in section, extending from just below the moulded ribs on one side of the axe.The socketed end of the axehead has suffered damage and now only circa 40% of the circumference survives. The breaks appear are still quite rough and although patinated it is likely that the damage was caused fairly recently. The axehead has a mid green patina with paler green patination in the many pits and abrasions covering the surface. In addition, the surface has striations which look like recent plough damage which has revealed the original surface in places. It measures 105.3mm in length, 40.26mm in width including the loop, 28.14mm excluding, and 39.6mm at the cutting edge. It is 30.35mm thick at the socket and 14.76mm just before the cutting edge; the walls of the axehead are 4.13mm thick. The object weighd 217g.This socketed axehead belongs to the Ewart Park phase of Bronze Age axeheads, which dates from c. 1000-800 BC. Smidth and Burgess (year) illustrate a similar axehead; plate 153, no. 1271 and other examples similar to this object can be found on this database, e.g. SOM-CO3882 and SF-81BDE1, with wider flaring cutting edge.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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