adze
- Museum number
- WG.934
- Description
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Tin bronze lugged adze with casting seams on both lugs. Very low flanges on each side of the blade. Hammered butt, blunted edge, all very well finished and ground. Fine golden patina.
- Production date
- 800BC-600BC (c.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 156 millimetres
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Thickness: 10 millimetres
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Width: 51 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Harrison & Craddock 1981
Also known as a Trunnion celt. Final Bronze Age.
Similar pieces with low flanges are known from Monte Sa' Idda, Sardinia (Taramelli, A. (1921), Il Ripostiglio dei Bronzi Nuragici di Monte Sa’ Idda de Decimoputzu (Cagliari), in ‘Monumenti Antichi’, XXVII, pp. 9-98, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, figs. 12, 16).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WG.934
