SOCKETED AXEHEAD 580

Description: Complete bronze looped socketed axe. Square-sectioned mouth, rounded corners. Sides expanding out slightly, straight blade. Prominent, angular collar at mouth. Two close-set horizontal moulded ridges below collar on all sides. Side loop joins lower ridge. Black/grey concretion within ridges and below loop on one side. Uneven seams. Clay core intact to top of mouth. Slight bronze disease. L: 132.5 W. mouth: 37.5 B. mouth: 41 Socket dims.: 26 x 29 B. loop: 6-8.5. Part of a hoard of 68 Armorican socketed axeheads.

Date: -800 - -700

Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD

Last import: August 15, 2017