Flat axehead
This is the earliest form of metal axe to be found in Devon. It would have been hafted to a wooden handle.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 38/1936/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- flat axehead
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Period Classification
- Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
- Production Year Low
- -2600
- Production Year High
- -1600
