- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze axe
- Long description
- Bronze axe with stop-ridge and high flanges and a small loop on one side. [CC [Excav. PR] 08/10/2013]
- 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: Middle Bronze Age
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Process Cast, Process Hammered
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 31 mm, Width: max 47 mm, Length: max 127 mm, Weight 245 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.14 Other numbers: V.70 P.475 (4) PR Cat other PR nos: 1449 PR Cat other PR nos: ?2303 PR Cat other PR nos: ?2309 PR no.: 1449
- 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
- Published in Allen, I.M., Britton, D., and Coghlan, H.H., 1970, 'Metallurgical Reports on British and Irish Bronze Age Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum', Occasional Papers on Technology 10, Oxford University Press, Oxford [CMP 09/08/2010] p 138 - Palstave with one loop flanges start nearly at butt almost straight in side view. Stop ridges developed into pockets. Blade concave in outline tapering rib on each face below stop ridge Upper part of sides keeled in cross section lower part flattish traces of longitudinal casting seam along whole length of sides Cutting edge sharpened Surfaces fairly well preserved but slightly rough [Drawing] [Metallographic examination and analysis provided] Sn 11.23%, Pb 0.15%, As<0.1%, Sb<0.1%, Ni 0.53%, Fe 0.023% - Confirmed as a bronze [GB 24/5/2005]
1884.119.14
Bronze axe
1884.119.14
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