Item: Palstave axe with loop.
Culture: Middle Bronze Age, Europe.
Dating: 1500-1200 B.C.
Material: Bronze.
Dimensions: 160 mm x 35 mm.
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Attributions and measurements are retained as cataloguing markers, without over-interpretation.
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Item: Palstave axe with loop
Material: Bronze
Culture: Middle Bronze Age, Europe
Period: 1500-1200 B.C
Dimensions: 160 mm x 35 mm
Condition: Good condition
During the Bronze Age, expanding networks and new techniques reshaped societies. Ceramics, ornaments and tools document practices, exchange routes and regional identities.
Attribution: Middle Bronze Age, Europe. Dating indicated: 1500-1200 B.C.
Preserved as a comparison anchor within the Antikarts corpus.
Primary value lies in typology, stated dating and the associated traceability trail.
Provenance (summary): Ex French private collection. BIBLIOGRAPHY BUTLER, J. J. Bronze Age: Catalogue of Flat axes, flanged axes and stopridge axes (1995) p.223, Fig. 145 and p.227, Fig. 153.
Record preserved in the Antikarts Museum as a documentary reference.
Archived source: https://www.yourantiquarian.com/product/bronze-age-palstave-axe/.
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