battle-axe
- Museum number
- Germ.99
- Description
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Middle German ground and polished sandstone battle-axe with bowed side faces and worn, shortened and resharpened blade section, cutting-edge damaged. It has a straight flat butt thinned on underside and an asymmetric perforation. Dark green to red (on blade).
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 19 - 21 millimetres (perforation)
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Length: 111 millimetres
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Weight: 372 grammes
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Thickness: 46 millimetres
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Width: 45 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Orlinska 2001
Findspot: Treffurt (Normannstein); 'Normannstein'; auf dem Normannsteine bei Treffurth; Landkreis Eisenach; Thüringen.
Discovered and presented by von Tilesius (Klemm, G., 1836, ‘Handbuch der germanischen Alterthumskunde’, Dresden, 158, pl. 11.2; Klemm, G., 1854a, Werkzeuge und Waffen, Allgemeine Culturwissenschaft, in ‘Die materiellen Grundlagen menschlicher Cultur’, Leipzig, 81-2, fig. 149, cited in error as fig. 148).
References: Klemm J. G., undated. ‘Catalog der culturhistorischen Sammlung des verstorbenen Hofrath Dr. Gustav Klemm in Dresden Königsbrücker Strasse Nr. 84. Einleitung’, Dresden, III, 8 (‘Axtklingen aus Stein. Durchbohrt’); Klemm, J. G., 1868b. A. ‘Germanische Alterthümer, British Museum, London (unpublished manuscript) no. 42 (‘Normannstein b. Treffurth’); ‘Manuscript of Purchases made using the Christy Fund’, British Museum (unpublished) 1869, 87, no. 89; Wagener, S.Ch., 1842, ‘Handbuch der vorzüglichsten, in Deutschland entdeckten Alterthümer aus heidnischer Zeit’, Weimar, 678.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Germ.99
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.8