- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Axe with almost circular cutting edge. Single piece of iron. [MJD 14/08/2014]
- Long description
- Axe with almost circular cutting edge. Single piece of iron. Straight shafts bent to form central bulge which has been flattened to form cutting edge. Both blade faces decorated with a small amount of geometric design. Wooden handle. Single strip of metal wound round butt. [MJD 14/08/2014]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1944
- Date collected
- By 1944
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Bent, Process Incised, Process Bound, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 45 mm, Width: max 285 mm, Length: max 560 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.259 Other numbers: R.1944.114
- Research and responses
For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVA Ipswich Ethnography A) see entry for 1966.1.1. See also 1930.43.20 and 1930.43.21 [OD 23/4/2001].
1966.1.259
Axe with almost circular cutting edge. Single piece of iron. [MJD 14/08/2014]
1966.1.259
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