Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35688 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Middle Bronze Age axehead |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered part of a Middle Bronze Age socketed copper alloy axehead. The internal construction of the axehead is unusual.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Before 18 May 1998. Metal detecting.
Part of Bronze Age socketed axe (S1) with odd construction internally. Both cutting edge and mount missing. [1] suggests this may be an early example and dates to 1200 to 1000 BC, ie Middle Bronze Age.
See (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 September 2000.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Associated Finds
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Holness, A.. 1999. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age socketed copper alloy axehead.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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