Socketed axe

Description

Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axehead from the Torran hoard, Ford, Argyll, 1000-800 BC

Museum reference

X.DQ 331

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Socketed axe

Date

Bronze Age

Style / Culture

Bronze Age

Materials

Bronze

Physical description

Bronze, looped; socket almost oval, expanded cutting edge with double moulding at mouth of socket and another moulding 0.65" below

Collection place(s)

Creag Beathach, Torran, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record