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Bronze Age : Axehead
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York Museums Trust, Rebecca Griffiths, 2012-10-12 15:49:19
Title
Bronze Age : Axehead
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axehead of Late Bronze Age date. The axehead is wedge shaped with raised rounded mouth moulding around a square socket. One edge of the mouth moulding has been lost to old breaks. Internally the socket tapers and narrows to the cutting edge. Externally the axehead tapers and narrows along the body before expanding into the blade and cutting edge which has a pronounced flare out towards each blade tip. A D-shaped sectioned attachment loop is present to one side of the axehead just below the mouth moulding and prominent casting flashes are present on both sides of the axehead including the loop. Both faces are decorated with three short and narrow raised ribs, all of which extend from a circumferential horizontal rib.

The metal has a shiny mid brownish-green patina and is worn. The axehead is 92.4mm long, the mouth moulding has an external diameter of 40.6mm x 38.6mm, and is 47.9mm wide at the blade. The axehead weighs 233g.

This axehead fits into the final phases of the Late Bronze Age specifically that associated with Ewart Park industrial phase.
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Riding of Yorkshire
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 524550
Old ref: YORYM-82CB62
Filename: MP0018.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/400102
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/400102/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/524550
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