File:2666 Wrought iron socketed axehead view 4 (FindID 256095).jpg

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2666 Wrought iron socketed axehead view 4.JPG
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, Kurt Adams, 2009-05-14 14:45:56
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2666 Wrought iron socketed axehead view 4.JPG
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English: Wrought iron socketed axehead length 98mm, width 37mm, thickness 25mm, weight 121g.

The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular (15mm wide, 25mm high) and narrows towards the top. The body gradually narrows towards the blade, 18mm from the mouth of the socket is a loop that has been cut into the main body of the axe, there edges of this loop have been rolled over slightly where it have been forced open when the metal was still hot. The blade 33mm wide, .1mm thick is expanded and is has a low curve in cross-section, there is a small section missing from the bottom of the blade but otherwise the rest id complete. The artefact is heavily corroded and encrusted around the socket and blade

Such objects are characteristic of the Halstatt culture of the earliest Iron Age of central Europe. They are rarely found in the British Isles, with examples from the Berwyn Mountains of Wales (Savory, H. Guide Catalogue of the Early Iron Age Collections 1976, 20) and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire (Cunliffe, B. Iron Age Communities in Britain 1974, fig.14:2.5). c.800 – c.600 BC
Depicted place (County of findspot) South Gloucestershire
Date between 800 BC and 600 BC
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FindID: 256095
Old ref: GLO-D2F478
Filename: 2666 Wrought iron Bronze Age socketed axehead view 4.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/210505
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/210505/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/256095
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Object location51° 38′ 18.24″ N, 2° 25′ 56.03″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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