The Bronze Age
Axes & Maces
Socketed bronze axe
- Period:
- Bronze Age
- Description:
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This socketed bronze axe is one of three bought by Selby in 1894 from an Edinburgh antique dealer called Duff. There was a ready market in late Victorian Scotland for prehistoric artefacts and this example probably came originally from Ireland.
- Place of Production:
- Ireland
- Materials/Media:
- copper alloy
- Dimensions:
- length: 36mm; W 24mm; breadth 3mm
- Source:
- Stranraer Museum
- Accession number:
- WIWMS 2004.6.129
- Digital Number:
- SRAM023n
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
- References:
Murray, J 2005 The William McDowall Selby Collection, The Transactions of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History And Antiquarian Society. LXXIX, 147- 172.
