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FLAT AXEHEAD
Unique ID: LEIC-361862
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Early Bronze age copper alloy flat axe blade, 57mm long, 61mm wide (at blade) and 9 mm thick with a weight of 123grams. The object is rectangular in cross section and sub rectangular in form. It is in fair condition, having lost some surface and it is incomplete having snapped about half way down its orginal length? Here is it 26mm wide and 9mm thick. From here its sides flare slightly outwards and taper in thickness to form a slightly rounded blade 1mm thick. It is decorated on both faces with a series of linear depressions running towards the blade.
The axe is similar to a Migdale type eg 111, in Savory, H.N. 'The Catalogue of Bronze Age Collections, National Museum of Wales'.
Class: Flat
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2300 BC
Date to: Circa 2050 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 57 mm
Width: 61 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 123 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Alford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4476
Four figure Latitude: 53.26146126
Four figure longitude: 0.15740433
1:25K map: TF4476
1:10K map: TF47NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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