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Early Bronze Age copper-alloy flat axe
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Tom Brindle, 2011-10-11 16:30:30
Title
Early Bronze Age copper-alloy flat axe
Description
English: A cast copper-alloy flat axehead of the early Bronze Age, dating from circa 2000 to 1600 BC. The axehead is complete but has suffered from considerable abrasion and the blade is no longer sharp. The axehead is sub-triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile, with a thickness of 8.62 mm thick in the centre, tapering down to 2.95 mm at the blade end and 2.5 mm at the butt. The axe flares gradually from 10.3 mm wide at the butt to 80.65 mm at the widest point, just before the edge of the blade. It measures 168.5 mm in length and weighs 374.8 grams. The surface is pitted through abrasion and corrosion and has a predominantly pale brown patina with areas of green where the surface patina has been damaged.

Bronze Age flat axes are amongst the earliest types of metal artefacts recovered in Britain, and are the earliest form of metal axes used.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date between 2000 BC and 1600 BC
Accession number
FindID: 465829
Old ref: WMID-2B3544
Filename: WMID-2B3544.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/349517
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/349517/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/465829
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Object location52° 46′ 54.12″ N, 1° 47′ 41.42″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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