Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: 'A.1904.526. An axe-head. The neck bears a yoke-like mark [drawing] on one-side, & a ? cross on the other side. Northern Peloponnese. *Mrs Walter K. Foster, 1904'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
'Northern Peloponnesus' written on the axe in white paint. [transcribed 18/7/2000]
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
According to R.C. Bosanquet (1913), this axe was was part of a hoard of five single axes that were brought to 'one of the smaller antiquity-shops in Athens' around 1903, which were 'found by a peasant in the Patras district'. 'Four were plain straight-sided implements with large elliptical haft-holes... the fifth [this axe], the best of the bunch, was bought by Mrs W.K. Foster, who gave it to the Cambridge Archaeological Museum. Of the four, one is in a private collection in England; the others lay for a long time in the shop and may now be anywhere' (p. 270).
Event Date 1903
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'An axe-head; with large oval perforation and basal knob: the neck bears a yoke-like mark on one side, and a (?) cross on the other side (l. 6").'
Event Date 1904
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
An axe-head; with large oval perforation and basal knob: the neck bears a yoke-like mark on one side, and a ? cross on the other side.
Event Date 1904
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Accession Register notes: 'An axe with the same marks [drawing] and + in relief on either side is in the British Mus. (Franks) and was bought at Pozzuoli'
Event Date 1904
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Bosanquet, R.C. (1913). 'Some Axes and a Spear'. In Quiggin, E.C. (ed.), Essays and Studies Presented to William Ridgeway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 269-279 (illustrated)
Event Date 1913
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Branigan, Keith. (1974). Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 166, n. 584
Event Date 1974
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Papadopoulou, E. (2007). ‘Western Greece and the North in the Late Bronze Age: the Evidence of Metalwork and Objects of Exotic Material’. In Galanaki, I. et al (eds.), In Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas, Proceedings of the International Conference Bronze and Early Iron Age Interconnections and Contemporary Developments between the Aegean and the Regions of the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Northern Europe, University of Zagreb, 11-14 April 2005. Aegaeum, vol. 27. pp. 459-466.
Event Date 2007
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
The identical axe referred to in the Accession Register note is British Museum no. 1889,0201.1.
Event Date 24/10/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Period was previously given as '?Bronze Age; ?Iron Age'. However, the identical axe in the British Museum is dated as Bronze Age, and this axe is included in a publication of the Early and Middle Bronze Age Aegean. Therefore the Period has been updated to 'Bronze Age'.
Event Date 25/10/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Axe head of cast copper alloy. Flared blade with a curved cuttting edge. Blade expands to a large oval shaft-hole with a outward angled knob on the bottom edge. Neck bears a raised marks: yoke-like mark on one side, and a possible cross on the other side.
Event Date 14/3/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad