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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Adelle Bricking, 2021-02-10 13:38:23 |
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AXEHEAD |
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English: Possible Iron Age iron axehead The implement is incomplete, with some damage to the socket (with a length of 81.3mm and a weight of 64.3g). The butt is irregular but is likely to have been truncated, although possibly was not much longer (with a width of 5mm and a thickness of 2mm – 3mm). A socket was formed by forged flanges, now damaged and incomplete (giving a maximum overall depth of 11.4mm and producing a socket width of 8mm). The butt end has straight, near parallel, slightly divergent sides (with a length of 32mm and a maximum butt width of 21mm) with surviving evidence for a loop. The socket is only present on one face and the opposite face is flat along its length. The blade has straight sides, divergent to the edge (producing a blade width of 45.0mm) and is of rectangular section, gradually thinning to the edge. The blade edge is heavily damaged but may have had a moderate curve. Iron Age iron socketed axes remain a poorly understood artefact type with only a comparatively small number of recorded examples known, probably only somewhere in the early thirties from Britain. When Manning and Saunders (1972)<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> published on the type they were aware of 21 examples, ranging in length from 90mm to 180mm and with a distribution largely centred on the Thames and more generally, Southern England. The author is aware of five other examples from Wales, including recent example from Merthyr Tydfil (NMWPA 2016.72). The form with forged flanges forming a socket and the apparent absence of a loop can be broadly paralleled with an example recovered from Thames Street, London (Manning and Saunders, 1972, no. 18), of a form recorded as being well known on the continent. It should be noted that the form is comparatively simple with few diagnostic features and it is very possible that the implement is of a more recent date.
<a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Manning, W.H. & Saunders, C.; 1972; A Socketed Iron Axe from Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, With A Note On The Type; Antiquaries Journal 52; p. 276-292 |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Rhondda Cynon Taf | ||
Date | IRON AGE | ||
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FindIdentifier: 1021853 |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1132078 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1132078/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine |
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Object location | 51° 36′ 36″ N, 3° 27′ 24.77″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.610000; -3.456880 |
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