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Double-Looped Socketed Axe

Origin

Serra da Saia, Louro, Famalicão.

Material

Bronze

Description

Bronze axe with double loop and symmetrical faces. Flat, hammer-expanded blade, with a curved cutting edge that is slightly fragmented at the tip. It displays three ribs perpendicular to the blade on each face, terminating at the butt stop.

Butt with a central projection, raised and thick, with lateral flanges decreasing towards the top. Loops composed of sub-circular section rings of differing sizes and slightly asymmetrical. No casting cone. Butt slightly worn at the top. No casting seams present and abundant traces of use visible on the blade, butt and cutting edge.

Classification and chronology

Monteagudo Type 35 A / … / Late Bronze Age

Dimensions

Maximum length: 230 mm; Maximum width: 55 mm; Maximum thickness: 33 mm; Weight: 1134,1 gr.

Deposit

MMAP, 31.

Bibli.

PINTO 1930, 306; MOREIRA 2005, 19; 2007, 53.