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Bronze Age flat axehead
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The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, Abi McCullough, 2012-03-27 14:49:59
Title
Bronze Age flat axehead
Description
English: Early Bronze Age, near complete copper flat axe. The butt is straight and narrow but is moderately thick (with a width of 19mm and a thickness of 5.5mm). The sides are markedly straight for their entire lengths, gradually diverging from the butt, towards the gently curved blade. There is some damage to the blade being heavily eroded - one blade tip having been lost. The more complete blade tip shows minimal flaring, producing a trapezoidal form. The axe form is unusual within the British and Irish traditions and is possibly a variant of copper trapezoidal axes with a continental European provenance. X-rays showed that there is a dense metal coating of the axe with high levels of silver, plus antimony and lead.

Thought to belong to the period of 2,300-1900BC (Lodwick. M, 2011)
Depicted place (County of findspot) Powys
Date between 2300 BC and 1900
Accession number
FindID: 495798
Old ref: CPAT-1C53E1
Filename: 3284-0007.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/375722
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/375722/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/495798
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Object location52° 28′ 41.88″ N, 3° 22′ 37.78″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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