flat axe
- Museum number
- 1843,1226.3
- Description
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Copper alloy flat axe; with a thin, narrow, rounded butt. Sides are roughly parallel to each other in upper half, then swing out gently in lower half to form a rounded cutting-edge, which has a notch missing. Decorated on btoh faces with rain pattern on the lower half of the blade.
- Dimensions
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Length: 193 millimetres (Max)
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Weight: 640.10 grammes
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Thickness: 12 millimetres (Max)
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Width: 96 millimetres (Max)
- Curator's comments
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Written on object - IRELAND.
Harbison 1969
Possibly found with a decorated axe which is labelled 'Fivemiletown' (1843,1226.2) in the British Museum registers.
Bibliography: Megaw/ Hardy, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 4, 1938, 305 No. 223.
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Ballyvalley type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1843,1226.3