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Bronze age flat axe
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, Stuart Ward, 2008-06-09 11:09:32
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Bronze age flat axe
Description
English: A Bronze Age cast copper alloy flat axehead. The butt of the axehead appears incomplete and briefly widens in profile to 6.5mm before being reduced to the blade. The length of the axehead is 62.27mm and is 30.66mm wide at the flared blade end. The tool has a brown-green patina, with a large amount of corrosion present on the surface. However, the axehead is in good condition in terms of the shape. This flat axe with a ‘thin’ butt seems characteristic of the early Bronze Age “Migdale-Marnoch” tradition, as suggested by Britton, quoted in ‘Bronze Age metalwork in Salisbury museum (Moore and Rowlands 1972, p.13). It can be parallelled to illustration no.5 in the same text.
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 2150 BC and 1500 BC
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FindID: 221465
Old ref: SWYOR-CF9AC4
Filename: PAS 814 axe.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/177924
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/177924/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/221465
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