- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Copper alloy flat axe. Please see [1884.119.205] for the complete accession record and for the records for the detachable individual parts see [1884.119.205 .1 - .2] [NC 26/4/2017]
- Long description
- Copper alloy flat axe with broken blade with double-faceted edges, split into two parts; this is the hafting part of the axe. One face remains shiny as when discovered one half was directly on top of the blade half, the outline of this half is visible on the blade half, as the surfaces in contact with each other remain shiny. Please see [1884.119.205] for the complete accession record and for the records for the detachable individual parts see [1884.119.205.1 - .2] [CC [Excav. PR] 01/10/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Ireland County Offaly Killyon Cullane Bog
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector John Lindsay
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Bronze Age
- Date collected
- 1863
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Bronze Metal, Process Cast, Process Forged (Metal), Process Hammered
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 100 mm, Length: max 107 mm, Weight 395 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.205.1 PR Cat other PR nos: 1464 PR Cat other PR nos: 2280
- Research and responses
A Sotheby sale of Lindsay objects took place on 8 April 1868. The Lugt number is 30411. There is a copy at the British Museum. [Dan Hicks 30/07/2013]
Since John Lindsay is probably the numismatist and antiquarian from Co. Cork (born 1789, and died 31 Dec 1870). This object was collected before April 1868, and perhaps considerably earlier than this date. [Dan Hicks 30/05/2012]
Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862 - 1866, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- Listed on page 315 of 'The Distribution of Early Bronze Age Settlements in Britain (Continued)', by O. G. S. Crawford, in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 40, no. 3 (September 1912), pp. 304-317: '[Site of discovery] Bog of Cullane, near Killyon [Present abode] Oxford P.R.'. (Photocopy in RDF: Researchers File: Crawford. This article is also available on JSTOR (stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1778948).) [MN 30/01/2009; JC 26 3 2009] Listed as number 1316 under the category 'Type Ballyvalley' on page 46 of The Axes of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland (Prähistorische Bronzefunde, IX, 1), by Peter Harbison (Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1969): '1316. Killyon, Co. Offaly. Single find; from Cullane bog. Pitt-Rivers Mus., Oxford (P.R. 1464). Crawford, GJ. 40, 1912, 315 (Pl. 57.27).' See also line-drawing in Plate 57.27 (unpaginated). [JC 26 3 2009]
1884.119.205.1
Copper alloy flat axe. Please see [1884.119.205] for the complete accession record and for the records for the detachable individual parts see [1884.119.205 .1 - .2] [NC 26/4/2017]
1884.119.205.1
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