File:Bronze Age Palstave axe (FindID 75759).jpg

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Bronze Age Palstave axe
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Buckinghamshire County Council, Ros Tyrrell, 2004-09-24 15:46:07
Title
Bronze Age Palstave axe
Description
English: A copper alloy axe blade fragment. The piece has tapering sides and a rounded blade with signs of wear. The surfaces are quite pitted. There is no evidence for the hollow socket so this may be part of a straight sided palstave. There are palstaves this shape in the hoard from Langdon Bay, Kent which is dated to around 1275-1140BC (Barber 2003).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Buckinghamshire
Date between 1500 BC and 1150 BC
Accession number
FindID: 75759
Old ref: BUC-48B485
Filename: 3398.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/37095
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/37095/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/75759
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