Axehead (side)

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

This picture shows the axehead from the side. A crescentic stop on each blade continues onto the sides as a rib picked out by a row of punched dots. There is a raised rectangle outlined and divided into three sections by punched lines and dots.

A large number of bronze axeheads dating to the Bronze Age have been found. Some were clearly everyday objects, used to chop trees and other woodwork. Other were prestige objects, and must have been symbols of power.

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• Online ID: 000-190-002-273-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.DC 135
• Date: Between 1600 and1400 BC
  Bronze Age
  
• Material: Bronze; with cast flanges, slight stop ridges, crescentic stop on each blade continues as rib across the sides picked out by a row of punched dots; raised rectangle outlined and divided into three sections by punched lines and dots
  Axe, flanged
  
• Dimensions: 6.50" L x 4.10" W across blade
  
• What: Axe, flanged
  
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• Where: Scotland, Stirlingshire, Bannockburn
  
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• Description: Bronze Age early short-flanged axe head, Bannockburn type, from Bannockburn
  
• References:
  • Coles, J.M. Scottish Middle Bronze Age Metalwork. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 97 (1963-64), pp 82-156, esp. 89, 138. 
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