Bronze Age axehead.


A heavily corroded bronze axehead was found while digging a gas pipeline trench in 1979.


The findspot was approximately opposite the entrance to Raven's Cliff entrance, to which the grid reference relates.


The axe is of a narrow-bladed, flat-axe type, with a narrow butt, slightly convex sides, and an expanded cutting edge. No original surface is preserved and only an approximate outline survives. It is 117mm long, 45mm across the cutting edge, and the butt is 20mm across. On typological grounds it has been suggested that it dates to approximately 1650-1500BC.


The object is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1979-0004.