The Portable Antiquities Scheme
ROMAN MINIATURE OBJECT
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Copper alloy miniature object in the form of a votive axe. The axe is depicted in profile, with a broad down-turned head and thick haft. The butt of the handle is decorated with two incised lines and a narrowed collar. The lower part of the main haft is decorated with an incised cross with another line at either end of it. The axehead itself is decorated with two pellet-in-double-ring motifs, set lengthways. The head of the haft and the butt of the axe terminate with an incised line. The reverse is undecorated.
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