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Record ID: NMGW391
Object type: AXE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of axe blade with a straight front face while the rear face, although straight at first, sweeps back to from a wide cutting edge. The axe blade has a triangular longitudinal section. Part of the cutting edge, most of the socket and the poll are missing and the remaining portion of the axe is heavily corroded. It is not possible to identify with the naked eye the weld line where one side of the socket is joined to the blade. An example of Manning's Type 2 (1985, 15-16, fig.3); however, it is not certain that this axe is Roman in date. The form of many iron tool types are parti…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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