File:Bronze Age flat axe (FindID 54106).jpg

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Bronze Age flat axe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Adam Daubney, 2003-10-30 15:41:20
Title
Bronze Age flat axe
Description
English: Early Bronze Age flat axehead. The axe has an expanded blade with a crescentic cutting edge. The tapering shaft sides are rounded, and the object is broken before the butt. The blade width is 93mm, and the broken butt end measures 30mm in width. Similar examples have been found at Scunthorpe, South Kyme and from the Witham at Lincoln (Davey 1973, fig.2).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 1700 BC and 1400 BC
Accession number
FindID: 54106
Old ref: LIN-12E603
Filename: LIN737.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/11664
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/11664/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/54106
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Object location53° 15′ 55.44″ N, 0° 29′ 27.41″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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