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[edit]| Bronze Age unlooped palstave | |||
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Somerset County Council, Robert Webley, 2013-05-03 13:09:25 |
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Bronze Age unlooped palstave |
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| Description |
English: Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy palstave (axehead) of unlooped type .The palstave is corroded, with some losses at its extremities. The septum is thinner than the blade suggesting that this is a palstave rather than an earlier flanged axe (Schmidt and Burgess 1981, 115). The flanges gradually widen from the butt to the stop, creating a triangular shape in profile. The stop is angled forwards slightly at its centre.
The blade is rectangular in cross-section with shallowly curved sides that widen gradually towards the cutting edge before curving out more approaching the cutting edge. The blade thins gradually from the stop to the cutting edge. There appears to be a double edge bevel. The palstave appears plain and has suffered losses at the butt and significantly on one side of the flanges and at one corner of the cutting edge, with metal showing through the patina at this latter. The palstave dates in general to the Middle Bronze Age, most likely within the Taunton or possibly Penard MW assemblages, that is c. 1400-1150BC.. It measures 147.4mm long by 51.4mm wide by 23.5mm thick; it weighs over 100g. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Somerset | ||
| Date | between 1400 BC and 1150 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 557580 Old ref: SOM-A636D3 Filename: SOM-A636D3.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/425565 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/425565/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/557580 |
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