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Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment
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Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service, Laura McLean, 2010-09-28 16:12:19
Title
Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment
Description
English: Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment, circa 1000-800BC. It is broken across the body with the blade end surviving. The socket end is rectangular in cross section, measuring 21.16mm by 4.65mm. The socket wall is 5.08mm thick. There is some damage to the cutting edge. The axehead is 54.03mm long, 43.76mm wide across the cutting edge, 30.54mm wide across the body. It weighs 110.5 grams.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 407424
Old ref: ESS-B0F101
Filename: 136b.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/298521
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/298521/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/407424
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Object location52° 55′ 41.88″ N, 0° 58′ 45.68″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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