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BRONZE AGE AXE
Bronze Age axe; Cast copper alloy flat axe dating to the early Bronze Age, c2000-1500 BC. The axe has no stop ridge but tapers to a broad cutting edge as well as tapering towards the butt end. There are some notches missing from the cutting edge and the whole surface is pitted and showing signs of pale green powdery copper chloride corrosion (the so-called ‘bronze disease’).Length 107mm, width 61m…
Subject
- archaeology - BRONZE AGE
Type of item
- AXE
- Axé
Medium
- Copper alloy
Providing institution
Aggregator
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Creation date
- -2000
- -2000
Places
- United Kingdom; Nottinghamshire; Mansfield
Identifier
- DENO-D20492
Year
- -2000
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-04-19T11:15:38.465Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T16:19:24.431Z