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Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe
Item has a thin tapering butt, which is rounded in plan. The sides are markedly divergent towards the blade end and are concave in shape. The blade surface is wide. The sides are rounded and unhammered.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
47.211
Find Information
Site Name: Field No.279, Halvaes Farm
Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1942
Notes: found during ploughing
Acquisition
Donation, 6/8/1947
Measurements
length / mm:144.0
width / mm:90.0 (of blade)
width / mm:25.0 (of butt)
maximum thickness / mm:9.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:364.4
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B1*
Location
In store
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