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Early Bronze Age Flat Axehead
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Isle of Wight Council, Frank Basford, 2007-04-11 15:39:52
Title
Early Bronze Age Flat Axehead
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper alloy flat axehead of Early Bronze Age date c. 2150 BC – c. 1500 BC). Length 45.1mm, width 37.1mm and 7.8mm thick. Weight 42.17g.

The butt and one of the blade tips are missing and the breaks are old. The blade of the axe was probably symmetrical in plan. The blade expands from the break at the top (the butt end) and originally the wing tips flared outwards abruptly and evenly. However on this example, one of the blade tips appears to have broken and then been re-modelled or re-sharpened in antiquity to form a gently curving edge rather than a flaring tip.

Severe corrosion and resulting pitting has obscured any blade faceting or hammer rippling that may have existed.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 2150 BC and 1500 BC
Accession number
FindID: 177059
Old ref: IOW-CEFC92
Filename: IOW2007-10-33.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/135288
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/135288/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/177059
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 27 November 2020)
Object location51° 20′ 22.56″ N, 1° 46′ 26.94″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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