File:Blade end (FindID 86970).jpg

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Blade end
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Katrina Deering, 2005-02-08 15:35:34
Title
Blade end
Description
English: Bronze developed flat axe (or flanged axe), probably of Type Glenalla (following Schmidt and Burgess 1981) or Class 4 (following Needham 1983; forthcoming) and dating to the Early Bronze Age, Period 3 (1950-1750 BC) (Needham 1996).

The axehead is a small example with a length of 77.8mm, and is also comparatively slender with a width at the bevel of 19.9mm. The butt is rounded and the sides are near-parallel (with a width at the butt of 18.2mm) as far as the bevel. After the bevel, the sides curve very gently outwards as far as the blade, where the sides turn out sharply to the blade tips, producing an expanded cutting edge with a surviving width of 39.0mm. The edges of the faces are raised slightly (1mm), but have been eroded and the sides are convex across their thickness. The faces are flat either side of the bevel, which is positioned 34mm from the butt. The blade begins 17mm from the edge. The surface of the axe has been largely lost, in addition to the cutting edge and one of the blade tips.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 1950 BC and 1750 BC
Accession number
FindID: 86970
Old ref: NMGW-8D6411
Filename: DSCN2489.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/50725
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/50725/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/86970
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Object location51° 17′ 23.28″ N, 1° 13′ 18.88″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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