Iron axe with a root growing round it like a haft. [El.B 22/02/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Iron axe with a root growing round it like a haft. [El.B 22/02/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Cultural groups: European
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date
Date collected: ?By 1939
Acquisition information: Found unentered: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Plant Root
Dimensions: Length: max 630 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.11.154
Research and responses: This axe is as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]

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