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20A946 late Bronze Age socketed axe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Wendy Scott, 2005-08-17 08:54:41
Title
20A946 late Bronze Age socketed axe
Description
English: Late Bronze age socketed axe of South-eastern class D. The axe has faceted body angles and a slim body. The mouth is oval and the body has 10 facets. The upper edge of the shallow collar at the mouth is damaged. On each side of the casting ridge there are two ridges that begin 7mm apart and sweep down towards the edge of the blade where they meet. This produces a clean flat blade. The axe has one side loop 21mm long and 7mm in diameter. The axe is 106mm long and the blade edge is 43mm wide. T he object is in fair condtion having quite extensive bronze disease (developed since its discovery) but otherwise has a good brown patina. The axe is a very fine example of Bronze age casting.,
Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 104582
Old ref: LEIC-20A946
Filename: 20A946.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/72630
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/72630/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/104582
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 25 November 2020)
Object location52° 32′ 38.04″ N, 0° 51′ 29.71″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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