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SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Unique ID: BH-F808C6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Part of a Middle to Late Bronze Age socketed axehead.
The surviving piece represents the lower part of the axehead and is roughly trapezoidal in plan, its thickness tapering towards the convex cutting edge. The remains of the central concavity are visible on the jagged upper edge, whose patination suggests that the damage occurred in antiquity. Both of the two narrower faces of the axehead display a longitudinal casting seam.
Length: 33.8mm; width: 37.8mm; thickness: 10.9mm; weight: 52.02g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1300 BC
Date to: Circa 801 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.8 mm
Width: 37.8 mm
Thickness: 10.9 mm
Weight: 52.02 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st December 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 14/8 - 11
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: North Hertfordshire (District)
To be known as: Therfield
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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