- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze axe
- Geographical reference
- "Ireland": ie Ireland or Northern Ireland (UK)
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Bronze Age
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Length x Width x Height: max 146 x 78 x 12 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.7 Other numbers: 1854 PR Cat other PR nos: 2304
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4]. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- Listed as number 1854 under the category 'Type Derryniggin' on page 60 of The Axes of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland (Prähistorische Bronzefunde, IX, 1), by Peter Harbison (Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1969): '1854. Provenance unknown. Pitt-Rivers Mus., Oxford (P. R. 1438). Unpublished (Pl. 75.32).' See also line-drawing in Plate 75.32 (unpaginated). [JC 26 3 2009]
1884.119.7
Bronze axe
1884.119.7
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