Axehead
29-218-1
From: Netherlands | Limburg | Horn (Netherlands)
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | 29-218-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Late Bronze Age |
| Provenience | Netherlands | Limburg | Horn (Netherlands) |
| Period | Late Bronze Age |
| Date Made | 999-700 BCE |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Technique | Cast |
| Description | Cast bronze socketed axehead. Complete, slighty corroded, badly worn at cutting edge, outline rectangular and flaring toward edge; rectangular in section at socket, thinning to cutting -edge. Loop handle perpendicular to and placed near socket. Sand molding evident near opening. Southeastern type. |
| Length | 13.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden te Leiden, 1912 |
| Other Number | Leiden GL.63 - Collector Number | 10 - Other Number |
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