File:Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axe (FindID 274881).jpg

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Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axe
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Leicestershire County Council, Rebecca Czechowicz, 2009-11-03 10:54:13
Title
Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axe
Description
English: Mid Bronze Age copper alloy palstave, 126mm long, 44mm wide at the tip, 28mm wide at the base, and 26mm thick. The object is in fairish condition with a brown patina. The axe is fairly worn and has no trace of a side loop. The blade is still sharp and splays slightly at each end. Its surface is plain and it has a pronounced sub triangular flange on one side only.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 1550 BC and 1150 BC
Accession number
FindID: 274881
Old ref: LEIC-FFF603
Filename: LEIC-FFF603b.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/227244
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/227244/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/274881
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 18 November 2020)
Object location52° 43′ 22.08″ N, 1° 21′ 56.59″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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