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Bronze Age axehead: Middle Bronze Age PalstaveAxehead
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Oxfordshire County Council, Anni Byard, 2011-08-16 16:52:18
Title
Bronze Age axehead: Middle Bronze Age PalstaveAxehead
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper alloy palstave axehead dating from the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1500-1150 BC). Damage in antiquity leaves the butt end of the axehead incomplete, and active bronze disease has created pitting all over the axehead's surface; areas of the original surface are missing due to this corrosion. The axehead retains most of its shopping blade, which flares out very slowly and slightly from the main body of the axe. The moulding seam is visible down both edges of the axehead but there is no evidence for a loop of any sort. The stop-ridge projects above a shallow channel that retains most of its original surface. This is one of two Bronze Age axeheads recovered from the same field, albeit from opposing ends. The other is recorded as BERK-A83841.
Depicted place (County of findspot) West Berkshire
Date between 1500 BC and 1150 BC
Accession number
FindID: 458330
Old ref: BERK-A91506
Filename: 2011214.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/341582
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/341582/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/458330
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Object location51° 24′ 41.76″ N, 1° 27′ 23.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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