Axehead

29-218-1

From: Netherlands | Limburg | Horn (Netherlands)

Curatorial Section: European

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Object Number 29-218-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Late Bronze Age
Provenience Netherlands | Limburg | Horn (Netherlands)
Period Late Bronze Age
Date Made 999-700 BCE
Section European
Materials Bronze
Technique Cast
Description

Cast bronze socketed axehead. Complete, slighty corroded, badly worn at cutting edge, outline rectangular and flaring toward edge; rectangular in section at socket, thinning to cutting -edge. Loop handle perpendicular to and placed near socket. Sand molding evident near opening. Southeastern type.

Length 13.1 cm
Credit Line Exchange with the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden te Leiden, 1912
Other Number Leiden GL.63 - Collector Number | 10 - Other Number

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