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Socketed axe

Description

Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axehead from the Torran hoard, Ford, Argyll, 1000-800 BC

Museum reference

X.DQ 330

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Socketed axe

Date

Bronze Age

Style / Culture

Bronze Age

Materials

Bronze

Physical description

Bronze, looped; socket almost square, expanded cutting edge badly eroded, with moulding at mouth of socket and second moulding at right angles; badly corroded

Collection place(s)

Creag Beathach, Torran, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

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Canmore Site Record

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