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| HER Number: | MDV9856 |
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| Name: | Bronze Flanged Axe, Coombe Vale Road |
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Summary
Bronze flanged axe, straight-sided, with expanding blade, crescentic cutting edge and rectangular heel which has been damaged. Dug up in the garden of 2 Combe Valley.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 935 731 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX97SW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Teignmouth |
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| District | Teignbridge |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | TEIGNMOUTH |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX97SW/17
- Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX97SW25
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum Accession Number: EXE/40/1959
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))
Full description
Fox, A., 1961, Twenty-Fifth Report on the Archaeology and Early History of Devon, 67; plate 3 (Article in Serial). SDV341693.
Bronze flanged axe, straight-sided, with expanding blade, crescentic cutting edge and rectangular heel which has been damaged. The flanges suggest the axe was cast in a bivavle mould. An early Bronze Age type of which several examples occur in the Plymstock hoard (circa 1500-1400 BC ) dug up in the garden of 2 Combe Valley, Teignmouth.
Map object based on this source.
Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX97SW25 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV350515.
Pearce, S. M., 1983, The Bronze Age Metalwork of South Western Britain, 456 (Monograph). SDV341822.
Flanged axe, shallow flanges, out-curved blade. Length 78 millimetres, blade width 44 millimetres, butt width 20 millimetres.
Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.
Map object based on this source.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV341693 | Article in Serial: Fox, A.. 1961. Twenty-Fifth Report on the Archaeology and Early History of Devon. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 93. A5 Hardback. 67; plate 3. |
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| SDV341822 | Monograph: Pearce, S. M.. 1983. The Bronze Age Metalwork of South Western Britain. British Archaeological Reports. 120. Photocopy. 456. |
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| SDV348725 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2012. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey. Map (Digital). |
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| SDV350515 | Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. 1978. SX97SW25. Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card. Card Index. |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds
- FDV3415 - AXE HEAD (LANEBA to Unknown - 2200 BC)
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Nov 1 2012 10:09AM |
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