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Name/TitleBronze age axe head from Rhue
About this objectBronze age axe head from Rhue
Early Bronze Age axe head found in a local garden under 1 m of black gravelly soil.
A treasure Trove acquisition. According to the Ullapool Museum newsletter Issue 3
October 1998: “The Bronze Age flat axe head found last June may be made of
copper and not bronze as first thought. This pushes the date of manufacture back
to its furthest extreme - circa 2500 to 2200 BC and makes it around 4000 years old.
It belongs to what we in Britain called the Bronze Age and refers to the first use
of metals after the Neolithic … the site was assessed and recorded by Dorothy
Lowe, an archaeologist from the Sites and Monuments Register in Inverness
and put forward as a possible Bronze Age cist.”Medium and MaterialsBronze
Measurements11cm x 6cm x 2cm
Subject and Association KeywordsRhue
Object TypeAxe
Object numberULM ACC 2000 004
Copyright LicenceAttribution - Non-commercial - Share Alike (cc)
