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Post-Medieval Carpenter's Axehead
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North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, 2013-12-06 11:50:46
Title
Post-Medieval Carpenter's Axehead
Description
English: Iron Axe Head. Wrought Iron head from a carpenter's axe. A slightly flared blade is sharpened to V section at the cutting edge, but is elsewhere of rectangular section; the back is flat, and the sides of the hafting hole bear slight rounded cheeks. The axe head was made by folding a thick iron strip, leaving a sub-triangular hole of length 45mm and maximum width 24mm to be occupied by a wooden haft (lost to decay). A wrought iron nail with a round head, of length 75mm and head diameter 24mm, has been driven obliquely into the handle from the top of the axe head; that it remains in situ suggests discard or loss while still hafted. The form of hand tools changed little from Roman times, but the good condition must suggest a relatively recent date, as well, perhaps, as the good quality of the metal. The use of a hand made nail to secure the haft was presumably also in a pre-industrial time and setting. Suggested date: probably Post-Medieval, 1500-1800.

Length: 185mm, Width: 88.5mm, Thickness (at back): 44mm
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 1500 and 1800
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 589610
Old ref: NLM-C838A6
Filename: NLM24015.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/449139
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/449139
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/589610
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