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Bronze Age socketed axehead (incomplete)
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2013-07-10 15:12:02
Title
Bronze Age socketed axehead (incomplete)
Description
English: An incomplete copper-alloy axehead of Late Bronze Age date.

The lower part of the blade and the cutting edge survive, the patination of the break suggesting that the remainder was lost in antiquity. The object is hollow and has been made in a two-piece mould, with the vertical join clearly visible on both of the two narrower faces. Above the convex cutting edge the sides appear to curve outwards; it is uncertain as to whether this is an orignal feature of the axehead or the result of the two wider faces having been squashed inwards.

Dimensions: length: 36.1mm; width: 35.7mm; thickness: 9.2mm. Weight: 30.21g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hertfordshire
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 568672
Old ref: BH-D6AC44
Filename: BA_axe_13_81_2.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/432722
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/432722/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/568672
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