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[edit]Bronze Age - Axehead - Socketed of Sompting type | |||
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The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, Rod Trevaskus, 2010-07-20 07:57:31 |
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Title |
Bronze Age - Axehead - Socketed of Sompting type |
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Description |
English: A cast copper alloy socketed axehead that in style, is consistent with the Sompting type with a prominent bulbous biconical collar with a horizontal moulding beneath. Sompting axes are typical of the Llyn Fawr phase, technically seen as the Bronze-Iron Age transition and sometimes now called the Earliest Iron Age (800-600BC). The axehead has a sub square section mouth. The fixing loop is then drawn from the lower moulding to extend 24mm down the side moulding with an inner diameter of 8mm.
The axe is undecorated with flat plain sides, no edge chamfer and broadly splayed to the cutting edge; the seam sides are wedge shape in plan and slightly convex with clear casting lines. Although there are numerous marks/gouges to the surface of the axe, they look to be due to the passage of time in the ground. There are no clear signs of use.
Coming to the damage to the axe; there is significant and extensive damage that appears to be contemporary with the date of the axe. One side of the blade has been struck very hard with a heavy round object such to cause the axe to bend and split on the opposing face. The edge of the blade has then also been struck several times with a similar heavy round object, leading to an almost denticulate edge with four clear strikes. The damage must have been deliberate and had rendered the axe useless.
The reason for the damage may only be speculated at; it may have been an unsatisfactory casting or perhaps prepared for votive use or simply come to the end of its useful life. The surface has a bright mottled green patina with some original smooth brownish surface patina still in evidence. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Denbighshire | ||
Date | between 800 BC and 600 BC | ||
Accession number |
FindID: 399510 Old ref: CPAT-5486C1 Filename: 3134-0009.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/290045 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/290045/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/399510 |
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Object location | 53° 07′ 40.8″ N, 3° 16′ 18.3″ W ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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