axe
- Museum number
- 1917,1203.1
- Description
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Iron socketed axe. Triangular in longitudinal section with a round eye set close to the poll.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 31 millimetres (shaft hole, top)
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Length: 175 millimetres (blade)
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Length: 228 millimetres
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Weight: 2066 grammes
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Width: 61 millimetres (blade)
- Curator's comments
- Manning 1985
The Accession Register records that it was found in association with other Roman material in 1884.
The type is not common in Britain, although one comes from Verulamium (Manning 1972, 164, no. 7); but is more frequently found in Germany, for example at Cannstatt ('O.R.L.' BV1, Kastell 59 (1914), 30, Taf. IX, 9), Stockstadt ('O.R.L.' Bill, Kastell 33 (1914), 55, Taf. IX, 67), Zugmantel ('O.R.L.' BIII, Kastell 8 (1937), 101, Taf. XVI, 1), Feldberg ('O.R.L.' BIII, Kastell 10 (1937), 35, Taf. IX, 28), and Heilbronn-Böckingen (Schönberger 1967, 142, Abb. 10, 2). Petrie (1917, pl. IX, 29) figures an example from Pompeii.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1917,1203.1
