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Cast copper alloy flat axe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Dot Boughton, 2012-05-24 14:58:41
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Cast copper alloy flat axe
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English: Cast copper alloy flat axe dating from the Early Bronze Age, that is c. 2150-1500BC. The axe is narrow with tapering sides and there are no signs of a stop ridge. It has a rounded butt and a flared cutting edge with concave shoulders. The axe is extremely worn and the original surface has now corroded away. There is a small possibilty that it was decorated, but judging from the slightly tapering sides it is probably an earlier flat axe (that is from c. 2150-1700BC) rather than a later one from the Migdale metalworking tradition. It shares similarities with axes of the Brithdir and Willerby metalwork traditions (Rohl and Needham 1990, 102).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cumbria
Date between 2150 BC and 1700 BC
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FindID: 504659
Old ref: LANCUM-E3C336
Filename: LCMJFE3C336.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/382763
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/382763/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/504659
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