Bronze flat axe-head

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Bronze flat axe head, Early Bronze Age 3,300 years ago

Field collection: Drumshade, Angus, on the surface of a raspberry field
Collected by Mrs T Murray

Donated by Mrs E Sime
Museum number 1964-16

Flat bronze axes are the earliest forms of metal axe. They were made by pouring molten metal into a single mould carved from stone. The metal working techniques, if not some of the axes themselves, may have been imported from Ireland

Bronze flat axe-head
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