The Portable Antiquities Scheme
ROMAN MINIATURE OBJECT
Unknown artist
A copper-alloy miniature axehead probably dating to the Roman period.The butt of the axehead is a bulbous and thins to the thickness of the blade. The butt is separated from the rest of the blade by a socket which runs across to object which means that the object would lie flat when suspended. The blade flares out from the socket to the cutting edge.
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