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SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Unique ID: KENT-B5A3A6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A fragment of the lower part of a copper alloy socketed looped axe dating from the Late Bronze Age, i.e. c. 1000-800BC. Possibly of plain South Eastern Type.
Description:
The fragment survives only as the blade end. The sides curve inwards from the curved crescent blade-edge, flaring in section to a rectangle. The break across the body is irregular. The surface of the axe is heavily mottled dark to light green to dark brown in patina and is heavily pitted by corrosion across its entirety. It looks like it was not faceted or had a ribbed decoration.
Masurements: 32.87mm long, 45.8mm wide, 15.54mm thick and 80.65g in weight
Class: South Eastern
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1000 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.87 mm
Width: 45.8 mm
Thickness: 15.54 mm
Weight: 80.65 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
Parish or ward: Eythorne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2749
Four figure Latitude: 51.19510472
Four figure longitude: 1.24755845
1:25K map: TR2749
1:10K map: TR24NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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