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Record ID: BERK-DAF6EB
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Axe Head, an iron axe with an unusually long, oblong shaped socket with a split seam. - Axes can be hard to date, stylistically, there is a common theme from the Roman period through to the Post-Medieval. However, the long socket, with the unusual curved butt on this example, are a confusion. The blade, in axe terminology, looks too 'closed' the overall look might suggest a much later date however the split socket is characteristic of late Roman and especially early medieval iron artefacts. Heavy corrosion covers the whole surface.The axe was found in an area of mostly Roman …
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: LIN-D9451D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy terminal from an unknown object, dated to the Iron Age to Medieval period (c. 50 BC - AD 1500). The object is sqaure in profile and rectangular in shape. At the terminal is a short cyclindrical projection. There are no decorative features apparent on the fragment. There is a very slight curve in the object indicating it may have come from a bracelet, torc or another rounded object. See record no. SWYOR-90DEC4 as a potential idea of what the object may have been.
The overall dimensions are as follows: 13.86mm in length, 4.9mm in width, 4.56mm in thickne…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2018
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