From Adabrock, Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Add to albumThis bronze axehead was found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. The hoard was buried between 950 and 750 BC.
Bronze socketed axe from Adabrock, Lewis
Although this axehead may well have been made in Scotland, other items in the Adabrock hoard had been imported from Ireland and the Continent, or copied from foreign prototypes. The objects were almost certainly deposited as gifts to the gods.
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- Online ID: 000-100-034-624-C
- Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
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National Museums Scotland
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- Ref: National Museums Scotland X.DQ 212
- Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
- Material: Bronze
Axe, socketed
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- What: Axe, socketed
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- Where: Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Adabrock
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- References:
- Coles, John M. Scottish late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 93 (1959-1960), pp 16-134, esp. p 127.
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