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Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, sim johnson, 2011-06-16 12:13:40
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Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment
Description
English: Late Bronze Age socketed axe of uncertain type and probably of Ewart Park metalworking industry dated to 950 - 750BC (Nedham 1996) .
The axe is fragmentary, represented by the blade end only (with a surviving length of 19.1mm and a weight of 21.5g). The axe is of sub-rectangular section at the break and is worn and eroded (with a width of 37.6mm and a thickness of 9.8mm). The base of the socket is evident at the break (22mm long, 2.6mm wide and 3mm deep). One face of the axe was thicker than the other (4.0mm compared to 2.5mm). Little of the sides survive and no casting seams are now discernible. The blade edge has been lost but was curved (with a surviving width of 36.7mm). The original surface of the axe has largely been lost and the current surface is pale green and powdery, with active bronze corrosion. Small patches dark green patina survives on the faces.

Socketed axes can date to the Wilburton metalworking phase of the Late Bronze Age, dated to c. 1150-950BC although most recovered socketed axes are of Ewart Park phase.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Pembrokeshire
Date between 950 BC and 750 BC
Accession number
FindID: 448476
Old ref: PUBLIC-9E4684
Filename: 2009.215.1i.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/332633
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/332633/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/448476
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Object location51° 39′ 12.24″ N, 4° 48′ 20.81″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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