Cu alloy flat axe.

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Flat axe, Bronze Age, 4,000 - 4,500 years ago

Field collection :Ireland

Donated by University of Dundee (Thomas Wise collection)
Museum number 1993-354-1-2

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.