flat axe
- Museum number
- WG.1543
- Description
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Copper alloy flat axe; with thin, narrow, slightly rounded butt, which is notched. Sides are roughly parallel to each other in upper half, then swing out gently in lower half. The cutting-edge appears to have been removed. Decorated on both faces with three panels of rain pattern, with a central border of cross-hatch and triangles and two lower bands of vertical straight lines and triangles. The entire object is covered with dark brown patina and surface appears flakey.
- Dimensions
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Length: 198 millimetres (Max)
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Weight: 610.80 grammes
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Thickness: 12.70 millimetres (Max)
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Width: 81.20 millimetres (Max)
- Curator's comments
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Harbison 1969
Probably from a hoard said to have been found near Connor. It is not expressly stated, but it is likely that it was found with WG.1542 and WG.1544.
Date: Frankford-Killaha-Ballyvalley period.
Label attached to object surface - A NEAR CONNOR ANTRIM WG 1543
Bibliography: Evans, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland (1881) 63f. Fig. 32; Megaw, Irish Naturalist's Journal 6, 1936, 61 Pl. 3,3; Megaw/ Hardy, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 4, 1938, 273, Fig. 1 d-f; 302, No. 125; Pl. 52a; Watson, Ulster Journal of Archaeology 8, 1945, 110, No. 78-80.
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Ballyvalley type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WG.1543