flat axe
- Museum number
- 1944,0702.1
- Description
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Copper alloy flat axe; cast, with thin, rounded butt. Decorated on each face with curved transverse ridges and furrows, the ridges engraved with zig-zags and dots.
- Dimensions
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Length: 126 millimetres (Max)
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Weight: 304.30 grammes
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Thickness: 10.40 millimetres (Max)
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Width: 74.40 millimetres (Max)
- Curator's comments
- Harbison 1969
Allegedly part of a hoard; found in a crannog. This axe, along with two others (1944, 0702.2 and County Museum, Armagh (1955:22)), seem spurious and may possibly be modern.
Bibliography: Wood-Martin, Pagan Ireland (1895) 424 Fig. 180. 181; Megaw/ Hardy, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 4, 1938, 304 No. 214; Pl. 53, a.b; British Museum Guide to the later prehistoric Antiquities of the British Isles (1953) 26f.Fig. 7,1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1944,0702.1