File:Bronze Age Flat Axe Back (FindID 552042).jpg
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[edit]Bronze Age Flat Axe Back | |||
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Photographer |
Durham County Council, Lauren Proctor, 2013-03-25 14:59:23 |
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Title |
Bronze Age Flat Axe Back |
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Description |
English: A complete copper alloy flat axehead dating to the period c. 2200 to 1900 BC.
The axehead is sub-rectangular in plan and in section. Both edges are still sharp although quite uneven and the surface of the object is badly abraded and the object is quite poorly preserved more generally. The axehead is rounded at one end, the cutting edge, and the axe then tapers towards the butt. The axe is quite thin and does not vary much in thickness although the middle is slightly thicker than the outer edges. There is no evidence for decoration on the surface of the object but that could be due to the fact that the surface has corroded away completely. The object is purpley-brown in colour with areas of a light green corrosion. It is likely that this dates to the Early Bronze Age and metalworking stage I to II which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 1-2, circa 2500 to 2050 CAL. BC. Axes of this type are broadly contemporary with beaker pottery, barbed and tanged flint arrowheads, copper halberds and gold lunulae. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) County Durham | ||
Date | between 2200 BC and 1900 BC | ||
Accession number |
FindID: 552042 Old ref: DUR-065531 Filename: DUR-065531-flat-axehad-back.jpg |
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Source |
https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/421117 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/421117/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/552042 |
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Permission (Reusing this file) |
Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 21 November 2020) | ||
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Object location | 54° 29′ 46.68″ N, 2° 06′ 27.86″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 54.496300; -2.107740 |
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current | 11:30, 30 January 2017 | 1,348 × 872 (169 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Portable Antiquities Scheme, DUR, FindID: 552042, bronze age, page 3879, batch count 8191 |
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Software used | GIMP 2.6.11 |
File change date and time | 12:27, 25 March 2013 |
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