adze

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Object Type: adze
Museum number: WG.935
Description: Slender lugged adze with an elongated, square sectioned butt, lightly hammered, and two large, pointed lugs. The whole piece is finely ground and polished with no casting seams visible. Golden patina. Made of tin bronze with lead.
Cultures/periods: Late Bronze Age
Production date: 800BC-600BC (c.)
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Rev William Greenwell
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Spain
Materials: tin-bronze (leaded)
Technique: hammered; ground; polished
Dimensions: Length: 187 millimetres; Thickness: 13 millimetres; Width: 62 millimetres
Curator's comments: Harrison & Craddock 1981 Also known as a Trunnion celt. Final Bronze Age.
Bibliographic references: Harrison & Craddock 1981 / A Study of the Bronze Age Metalwork from the Iberian Peninsula in the British Museum (88)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: John Pierpont Morgan
Acquisition date: 1909
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: WG.935

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