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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2626
Coves d'Olopte
Prehistory

flanged ax

MAC BCN-043185

Object type
ax
Production date
-2300 / -1200
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Prehistory
Discovery location
Coves d'Olopte
Materials
bronze
Township
Isòvol (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Cerdanya)
Technique
casting, moulding (two-piece mould)
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
1540 x 690 x 220 mm
Description
Bronze axe with sides, straight and slightly concave heel and convex cutting edge. The sides are an element that reinforced the attachment to a wooden handle. Bronze metal tools were doubtedly a technological breakthrough given that they are very strong, can be sharpened and the metal can be recycled by smelting it to make other tools. The cave where the axe was found was well known and visited from the early twentieth century. It was explored by Josep Colominas from the Institute of Catalan Studies in 1923. The discovery was made in 1966 by a team of speleologists from the Mountaineering Centre of Catalonia, who picked it up on the surface.

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