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Axehead (front)

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from Bannockburn, Stirlingshire

Axehead (front)
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This bronze axehead was found at Bannockburn in Stirlingshire. It dates from around 1600 to 1400 BC.

The axehead has long cast flanges, a wide blade and slight stop-ridges, designed to stop the axehead from slipping sideways in the haft. The crescentic stop on each blade continues as rib across the sides.

Middle Bronze Age axeheads are technologically more sophisticated than the flat axeheads of the Early Bronze Age. This was because they were made with closed moulds rather than the open moulds used for the earlier axeheads.

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