adze
- Museum number
- WG.933
- Description
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Tin bronze lugged adze, cast in a two piece mould with seams clearly showing on each side. Well finished and ground, and hammered on cutting edge, which is blunted. Even green patina.
- Production date
- 800BC-600BC (c.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 148 millimetres
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Thickness: 13.50 millimetres
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Width: 48.50 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Harrison & Craddock 1981
Also known as a Trunnion celt. Fine condition.
Final Bronze Age. It is very similar to an iron one found in a small hoard at Campotéjar, Prov. Granada (Bosch-Gimpera, P. (1932), ‘Etnologia de la Peninsula Ibèrica’, Barcelona, fig. 194).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WG.933
