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SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Unique ID: GLO-D2F478
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Wrought iron socketed axehead length 98mm, width 37mm, thickness 25mm, weight 121g. The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular (15mm wide, 25mm high) and narrows towards the top. The body gradually narrows towards the blade, 18mm from the mouth of the socket is a loop that has been cut into the main body of the axe, there edges of this loop have been rolled over slightly where it have been forced open when the metal was still hot. The blade 33mm wide, .1mm thick is expanded and is has a low curve in cross-section, there is a small section missing from the bottom of the blade but otherwise the rest id complete. The artefact is heavily corroded and encrusted around the socket and blade Such objects are characteristic of the Hallstatt culture of the earliest Iron Age of central Europe. They are rarely found in the British Isles, with examples from the Berwyn Mountains of Wales (Savory, H. Guide Catalogue of the Early Iron Age Collections 1976, 20) and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire (Cunliffe, B. Iron Age Communities in Britain 1974, fig.14:2.5). c.800 - c.600 BC
Find of note status
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: 800 BC
Date to: 600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 98 mm
Width: 37 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight: 121 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2666
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
District: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Tortworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST6993
Four figure Latitude: 51.634947
Four figure longitude: -2.449313
1:25K map: ST6993
1:10K map: ST69SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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