Early Bronze Age Battle Axe, Sandwick, Orkney3D Model
This fine early Bronze Age battle axe is one of only a dozen from Orkney. Although these artefact occur across much of Europe, this example is a distinctive short and deep Scottish form, known as the ‘Northern Variant with extreme expansion’. This artefact is manufacture from basic andesite and it is near identical to an example from Longhope, which in housed in Marschal Museum, University of Aberdeen.
This artefact was acquired by Malcolm Mackenzie Charleson in 1898 and is said to have been ‘turned up by the plough in Sandwick’, but its precise findspot is not known. It was purchased by the National Museum in 1909.
Dimensions: L:148.1mm, B:61.4mm, T:95,5mm. W:869g
Accession No.: X.AH 133
This model was produced by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark for a Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Working stone, making communities: technology and identity on prehistoric Orkney’ Directed by Prof Mark Edmonds, University of York.
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