Axehead(Palstave)

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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, the flanges are 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.

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The Hunt Museum preserves and exhibits the original artefacts gathered, over a lifetime, by John and Gertrude Hunt and known as the Hunt Collection. The Museum also displays its own collections, as well as visiting exhibitions of Local, National and International significance with the overall aim of maximising their cultural and educational potential for the people of Limerick and Ireland.

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