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Early Bronze Age flat axehead
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Lucy Shipley, 2020-12-16 14:22:53
Title
Early Bronze Age flat axehead
Description
English: A possibly incomplete copper alloy flat axehead of Migdale type dating to the Early Bronze Age, c. 2200-2000 BC. 

The axehead has a slightly truncated butt, which may be due to a break or simply its individual form. It remains fairly narrow and rectilinear in shape before flaring to the blade. It is rectangular in cross section, although the blade narrows to its original cutting surface. It appears undecorated but the surface is pitted and marked across the dark green shiny patina. 

It is similar to DEV-0CAAEF, although slightly shorter in the butt. It is characteristic of south western metalwork from "metalworking stage II", which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 2 (c.2350-2050 cal BC) Knight, Ormrod & Pearce (2015: 87, no. 3, 11, 213) illustrate a number of similar examples from the south western peninsula including Devon and Cornwall. 

Measurements: 91.9mm length, 38.7mm width, 8.2mm thickness, weight 113.3g
Depicted place (County of findspot) Devon
Date between 2200 BC and 2000 BC
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FindIdentifier: 1017440
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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/1125078
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1125078/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1017440
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Object location50° 42′ 11.88″ N, 3° 18′ 06.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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