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Bronze Age : Flat Axehead
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York Museums Trust, Rebecca Griffiths, 2013-10-11 11:36:30
Title
Bronze Age : Flat Axehead
Description
English: A complete copper alloy flat axehead of early Bronze Age date. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a curved blade tapering to a rounded cutting edge. The axehead is extremely worn and undecorated. No signs of ridges or flanges are present indicating that this is an early flat axe.
The metal has a mid brownish-green patina. The axehead is 102.1mm long, 40.8mm tapering to 23.7mm wide, 8.1mm thick and weighs 111g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 2150 BC and 1500 BC
Accession number
FindID: 578880
Old ref: YORYM-C14FC5
Filename: MF0001.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/442237
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/442237/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/578880
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 19 November 2020)
Object location54° 03′ 12.6″ N, 0° 58′ 06.89″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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