Prehistoric — Late Bronze Age
Axehead, socketed axehead
Bronze socketed axehead of 'south-eastern' type. It has a square-sectioned mouth flanked by a low collar, with low casting flashes surviving down both sides and around the loop, from the underside of which projects a small spur. There is a single internal rib on either face. The exterior of one has a lustrous, dark olive-green patina; much of the other is a metallic brown-black. One tip of the blade is damaged while the edge has been nicked in one place (and a metal sample taken from the area adjacent). The olive-green patina has been chipped in several places at the mouth and just below the collar. Part of a hoard of five axeheads found near plots 28-29, on a building site in Disraeli Road, Park Royal, Brent, February 1975.
- Category:
- Prehistoric
- Object ID:
- 74.405/2
- Object name:
- axehead, socketed axehead
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- Production date:
- Late Bronze Age
- Material:
- copper alloy
- Measurements/duration:
- L 80 mm, W 40 mm, T 35 mm, WT 147.37g, L 82 mm, W 42 mm, D 35 mm (overall)
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- Record quality:
- 60%
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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