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SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Unique ID: SUR-2A09D7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A fragment of cast copper alloy socketed axe dating to the early Iron Age (800 BC -700 BC). The rim has a plano-convex profile and is 7.8mm thick. The lug aperture has a flattened oval shape; the lug itself is 9.7mm wide. The interior surface is rough. There is a prominent casting seam along the mid part of the fragment. The loop has the characteristic spurs of a Sompting Type Early Iron Age socketed axe.
Class: Sompting
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 800 BC
Date to: Circa 700 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43.6 mm
Height: 12.4 mm
Width: 30.6 mm
Weight: 36.68 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: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Moulsford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU5883
Four figure Latitude: 51.54292534
Four figure longitude: -1.16504412
1:25K map: SU5883
1:10K map: SU58SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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