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Bronze Age axe; blade tip fragment
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Derby Museums Trust, Anja Rohde, 2008-10-06 08:53:49
Title
Bronze Age axe; blade tip fragment
Description
English: Bronze Age axe; fragment of cast copper alloy axe blade of probable middle Bronze Age date (c.1500 – 1200 BC). The fragment is the blade end of the axe. The cutting edge is very worn and uneven in shape, suggesting much use. The blade thickens quite quickly beyond the cutting edge and has a central raised rib on both faces, giving a roughly lozenge-shaped cross-section. The whole has an even, tactile, pale grey-green patina.

It seems likely that this is a fragment of a palstave axe, rather than the earlier flat axes or later socketed axes. Flat axes do not generally have a raised mid-rib and if it was a fragment of socketed axe we would expect to see the bottom of the socket at the break, since this is the point at which socketed axes are weakest and therefore the point at which they most commonly break. However, even with the interpretation of a palstave, this is an unusual piece since the mid-rib is exceptionally large and close to the cutting edge.

Length 44.3mm, width 27.4mm, thickness 11.5mm, weight 46.90g
Depicted place (County of findspot) Nottinghamshire
Date between 1500 BC and 1200 BC
Accession number
FindID: 234564
Old ref: DENO-F57862
Filename: E6070 ba axe frag.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/189812
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/189812/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/234564
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