Bronze, Unlooped Palstave Axe

3D Model

Culture: Bronze Age Material: Bronze Dims: L10.1cm W (blade) 5.25cm Accession No: HCA 244 Current Location: The Hunt Museum Limerick A cast unlooped, palstave axe with a stop or ledge-ridge joining the flanges across the top. The cutting edge is splayed, flanges large leaf shapes and the stop-ridge is straight. The flanges continue only slightly beyond the ridge. A Middle Bronze Age development of the flanged axe to create a more effective hafting technique. They occur throughout Europe with early examples in Ireland dating to the Killymaddy/Acton Park phase of the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1,600 BC). More.