LANCUM-0033B8: Late Bronze Age socketed axe of Yorkshire type

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SOCKETED AXEHEAD

Unique ID: LANCUM-0033B8

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Late Bronze Age socketed axe of 'Yorkshire' Type. The axe has one large mouth moulding, the socketed being of rectangular shape, aligned with the short blade. Both faces are decorated with three narrow, short ribs, all of which 'hang' from a similarly narrow lower mouth moulding/horizontal rib. The loop is small and not splayed and the sides of the axe almost parallel, terminating in an almost straight blades which shows resharpening marks and signs of wear, prehistoric as well as more recent. Today the blade is blunt and slightly flaky around the edges. The casting seams are not prominent and may have possibly been smoothed down. There are two narrow hafting ribs inside the socket, one on the back of either face.

Three ribbed Yorkshire type axes are a well-known part of the Ewart Park metalwork assemblage of the British Late Bronze Age. In Yorkshire, many hundreds of these axes have been found as single finds as well as in hoards such as from Everthorpe.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Post 1000 BC
Date to: Ante 800 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 81.08 mm
Width: 44.33 mm
Weight: 300 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1982

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast

Spatial metadata

Region: North West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Lancashire (County)
District: Lancaster (District)
To be known as: Quernmore

Spatial coordinates

Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Other chance find
Discovery circumstances: Found in bag of carrots.
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Needham, S.P., Bronk, C., Coombs, D., Cartwright, C.R. and Pettitt, P.	1997	An independent chronology for British Bronze Age metalwork: the results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme

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Recording Institution: LANCUM
Created: 16 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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