- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze axe
- Long description
- Triangular bronze axe.
- Geographical reference
- Ireland County Cork Cork
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector John Windele
- 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 Copper Alloy Metal, Material Bronze Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Length x Width x Height: max 115 x 78 x 5 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.25 PR Cat other PR nos: 2314
- Associated publications
- Listed as number 804 under the category 'Type Killaha' on page 32 of The Axes of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland (Prähistorische Bronzefunde, IX, 1), by Peter Harbison (Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1969): '804. Provenance unknown. Pitt-Rivers Mus., Oxford (P.R. 1431.2314). Unpublished (Pl. 36.17).' See also line-drawing in Plate 36.17. (unpaginated). [JC 26 3 2009]
1884.119.25
Bronze axe
1884.119.25
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