This category includes objects with an edge, the head mounted parallel to the handle. It can be used to shape, split, or cut wood. 

 

Objects: Axes Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
37 (none) (none) (none) Axe, bronze. Broken. [drawing 1:2]
59 (none) (none) (none) Bronze axe. [drawing 1:2]
1428 (none) (none) (none) Bronze implement. With edge at rounded end. [drawing 1:1]
3341 (none) (none) (none) Axe head. Bronze: fine specimen in excellent condition. Sketch 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
7851 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Thickly covered with corrosion but intact. [drawing]
7852 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. rather slender and light type. XIX. [drawing]
7855 (none) 1928,1009.212 (none) Copper axe. Lower part of socket broken away, much of the wood left in the socket. XIX. [drawing]
7857 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Slender type. Socket broken in two lengthwise and part missing.
7876 (none) (none) (none) Copper blade ? Axe. Straight-sided : cf. U.7877. Bent-over end missing.
7928 (none) (none) (none) Axe head. Copper. Slinder type. [drawing] not to scale. [type] XIV
7987 (none) 1928,1009.211 (none) Copper axe. [drawing] normal type.
8034 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Type XI [drawing] Blade of the usual type, but instead of a solid socket the metal is simply bent round the haft and welded, the sides brought over the two edges of the blade & hammered in. When found, there were remains of coarse matting on either side of the blade : it might have been merely wrapped in matting, but it also might have had a matting sheath. [drawing 1:1]
8036 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe Similar to U.8034 but without the thinning of the blade near the ring socket. Type X [drawing] Broken across but complete
8065 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Normal type except that the rib down the back of the socket is unusually pronounced. [drawing] Type A1.b
8088 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Normal type. [drawing] [type] XIX.
8107 (none) 1928,1009.210 (none) Axe. Copper. Heavy type. [drawing]
8109 (none) 1928,1009.209 (none) Axe. Copper. Heavy type. Remains of wood inside socket. [drawing] [type] XIX.
8115 (none) (none) (none) Axe head. Copper. Heavy type. Raised band round top of shaft. [drawing] not to scale. [type XIX]
8136 (none) (none) (none) Axe. Copper. Heavy type. [drawing] not to scale. [type] XIX.
8148 (none) 1928,1010.372 (none) Axe. Copper. Heavy type.
8155 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. The socket made by bending over the end of the blade. Part of the blade missing. [drawing] [type] XV
8179 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Normal type but with unusually thickened back rib. [drawing]
8263 (none) (none) (none) Axe. Copper. [drawing] 1:2 approx.
8284 (none) (none) (none) Axe. Copper. [drawing] [Type] XIX
8357 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Broken and in poor condition. [drawing] [Type] XV