Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-840B36
Object type certainty: Certain
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Fragment of Early (or Middle) Bronze Age bronze flanged axehead (or possibly palstave axehead although the flanges are a bit low), consisting of the damaged butt end only. It measures 24.43x(max)26.86x(max)8.77mm and weighs 25.15g. The damaged butt end appears to be complete at one corner and broken at the other. Just off centre is a bubble in the metalwork, possibly contributing to the break by weakening the metal. The break at the other end of the fragment is I-shaped in section, just as the flanges are beginning to develop. The fragment is too small with not enough surviving of the flanges to tie it down further. 1900 - 1100 BC.
Class: Fragment
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: 900 BC
Date to: 700 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.43 mm
Width: 26.86 mm
Thickness: 8.77 mm
Weight: 25.15 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st March 2009
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4 Figure: SU1717
Four figure Latitude: 50.952185
Four figure longitude: -1.759358
1:25K map: SU1717
1:10K map: SU11NE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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