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AN1836 p.122.13

Object types: socketed axe

Description: looped and socketed axe (Breton type)

Materials: copper alloy

Date: Late Bronze Age (Britain) (c. 1150 - 800 cal.BC)

Period: Bronze Age (Britain) (c. 2500 - c. 800 cal. BC)

Associated Places: Carn Brea, Cornwall, England (find spot)

Associated Persons: William Borlase (excavator)

Acquisition: Presented by the Rev. W. Borlase, 1770.

Reference: 

Rev. W. Borlase, Antiquities of Cornwall, pp. 281