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Bronze Age : Miniature Object
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York Museums Trust, Rebecca Griffiths, 2020-02-19 11:44:29
Title
Bronze Age : Miniature Object
Description
English: A complete copper-alloy miniature flat axehead of early Bronze Age date, c.2150 - 1500 BC. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a curved blade tapering to a rounded cutting edge. The sides are slightly concaved and the axehead is undecorated.

The metal has a dark green/brown patina and is worn. The axehead is 44.8mm long, 18.3mm tapering to 4.4mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 9.4g.

This object is too small to have functioned as an axe and current archaeological thinking suggests they played a role in votive/ritual practices or functioned as amulets. Despite the obvious lack of contemporaneity, those modelled on later Bronze Age axe types, socketed and looped, have been found in secure Iron Age and Roman contexts.
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 2150 BC and 1500 BC
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FindIdentifier: 992919
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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/1093262
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1093262/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/992919
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location54° 17′ 11.76″ N, 0° 38′ 09.24″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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