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- Bronze Age1
- Bronze Age 1
- Iron Age 1
- Late Bronze Age 1
- Late Brown Age1
- Morebattle, Scottish Borders1
- Peebles Hoard1
- Roman Scotland1
- Scotland1
- Somerset1
- Treasure Trove1
- analysing unusually small socketed axeheads from Scotland and northern England. For the first time, scientific techniques have been applied to these objects, including optical microscopy, X-ray fluorescence analysis and computed X-radiography, to inform assessments of wear analysis, material composition, manufacture and chronology. This presentation presents the findings and offers a broader discussion surrounding the changing function and meaning(s) of small socketed axeheads in later prehistoric Britain.1
- archaeological excavations1
- bronze 1
- bronze fittings 1
- bronze socketed axehead 1
- deposition 1
- finds1
- gold 1
- metal detecting 1