flat axe
- Museum number
- WG.1529
- Description
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Copper-alloy flat axe; with a thin, slightly rounded butt. Sides are roughly parallel in upper half, then splay gently in the lower half to form a curved cutting-egde, which has two notches missing. Sides are double-faceted. Entire object is covered with brown patina and there are patches of green copper-alloy corrosion.
- Dimensions
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Length: 121.70 millimetres (Max)
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Weight: 424.60 grammes
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Thickness: 12.20 millimetres (Max)
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Width: 73.10 millimetres (Max)
- Curator's comments
- Lough Ravel - subtype Ballybeg
Label attached to object - 1529 GOWRAN KILKENNY 5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2022 17 Feb - 17 Jul, London, BM, G30, The world of Stonehenge
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WG.1529