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Bronze Age Axe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, sim johnson, 2011-08-18 15:06:57
Title
Bronze Age Axe
Description
English: Bronze Age axe blade, probably of Middle to Late Bronze Age, c. 1,500 - 700BC

The axe is fragmentary, represented by part of the blade edge (with a surviving length of 25.6mm, a surviving width of 30.9mm, a maximum surviving thickness of 10.4mm and a weight of 37.7g). The surviving side is near-straight and slightly divergent to the blade tip (producing a surviving blade width of 30.0mm). The side suggests that the axe was of slightly hexagonal section. The casting seam is evident and has been fettled, seemingly by hammering. The axe faces were gently concave across their widths but slightly convex across their lengths. At the break there is the slight suggestion of a rectangular base to a socket, possibly suggesting that the axe has broken across the socket base, although the identification is somewhat speculative. There is a notch in the blade edge which seemingly occurred in antiquity. The current surface is heavily-pitted with a mid-green patina.

The casting seam on the axe implies a casting technology using a two or three piece mould technology and therefore an axe of cast-flanged type at the earliest, and more likely a palstave or socketed axe fragment. The speculative identification of the socket base may indicate a Late Bronze Age date, c. 1,200 - 700BC.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 1200 BC and 700 BC
Accession number
FindID: 458783
Old ref: PUBLIC-D1C0C5
Filename: 2010.234.5i.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/341958
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/341958/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/458783
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Object location51° 31′ 03″ N, 2° 12′ 33.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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