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A cast bronze fragment of a Bronze Age socketed axe, dating between c. 1400-700 BC.
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Caroline Johnson, 2004-10-05 11:23:50
Title
A cast bronze fragment of a Bronze Age socketed axe, dating between c. 1400-700 BC.
Description
English: A cast bronze blade fragment of a Bronze Age socketed axehead (length: 35mm; width at blade tip: 52mm; thickness: 14.4mm; weight: 73.57g). With only the lower part of the body and blade edge surviving, it is impossible to classify this socketed axehead to a particular type. The hollow inside of the artefact is present. The break probably happened in antiquity and occurs across the width of the axehead in a roughly straight line. The artefact is in a worn and poor condition with some areas of bronze disease, particularly along the break and inside the hollow cavity. No remains of the original patina survive and the surface has a variety of colours, mainly orange and light green.

Socketed axeheads represent a change in the method of hafting and production (by hollow casting), particularly in comparison with the earlier flat and palstave axes. The hafting is now done with the adoption of a handle with a single knee-shaft prong (Savory, 1980, page 48). Socketed axes date to the Late Bronze Age (c.1000-800 BC).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Telford and Wrekin
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 76878
Old ref: WMID-26FF21
Filename: WMID-26FF21.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/37943
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/37943/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/76878
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Object location52° 46′ 15.6″ N, 2° 22′ 30.36″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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