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Unique ID: SUSS-9DD02B
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper alloy axe head, possibly a Roman Votive object, AD.43-400. The axe head is a truncated triangle with a broad curved cutting edge. The butt of the axe shows some signs of an old worn break and may originally have had a sybolic haft and butt as in NMS-B80741. It is similar in shape to YORYM-F02231, a probable Roman find based on Bronze Age designs. Axes are common as votives in the Roman period and are discussed in Green (1975) Archaeological Journal. 132, fig.2, nos.7 and 20.
Class: axe, flat
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.32 mm
Width: 28.73 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 9.88 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TQ4205
Four figure Latitude: 50.82713068
Four figure longitude: 0.01484206
1:25K map: TQ4205
1:10K map: TQ40NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Green, M.J. | 1975 | Romano-British non-ceramic model objects in South-East Britain |