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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
A looped socketed axe, which has a sub-rectangular socket with a double moulding around the mouth. It has parallel sides which expand into a crescentic cutting edge. Decorated with three parallel ribs which hang from the lower, and less substantial, moulding. Loop is large and prominent. The axe still retained the charred stump of a whittled willow haft, wedged into the socket with what appeared to be unburnt strips of wood or bark.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.78H/138
Find Information
Site Name: The Breidden Hillfort, Criggion
Grid Reference: SJ 292 144
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1969-1976
Notes: found standing upright 4 cms below the modern turf line in the interior of the fort, but not in a detectable feature, (Co-ord. B 375504)
Measurements
length / mm:103.5
width / mm:50.0 (blade)
external diameter / mm:40.5 x 39.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:233.2
internal diameter / mm:28.0 x 29.0*
diameter / mm
depth / mm:c. 78.0 (of socket)
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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