Three palstave axes of different form from the middle bronze age. These forms broadly superceded the early brone age flat axes and were often cast in two part molds. On the left a late palstave axe found in S.E. Britain (though it may have been imported in prehistory from France) with tie loop to stop the forked or cleft wood handle from carrying forward on the blade. In the middle a stoppered axe found in Scotland with small hammered median retaining flanges or wings. On the right a median winged axe verging on palstave from northern France with enclosing flanges which could be hammered onto the cleft wood mount. Any temporal progression of style is not always clear on such axes,it varied with region,and the times at which they were used overlap. They were genrally superseded by socketed axes | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Stewart, Paul D. |
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