Record ID: CORN-70CDC7
Object type: BATTLEAXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Stone (diorite) perforated waisted battle axe, lozenge-shaped in plan, sub-rectangular in profile and oval in section, with a faceted butt end and an expanded blade. The surface has been polished but is pitted slightly on one side and there is iron staining on the other side. The shafthole is circular in plan and hourglass-shaped in profile and is 22 mm in diameter and 32 mm in height. The axe is made of a weathered altered dolerite and the polishing and linear striations within the shafthole are distinctive and suggest that the axe was not permanently mounted on to a shaft, but conti…
Created on: Monday 16th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.