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  • The Use and Significance of Socketed Axes During the Late Bronze Age

  • Ben Roberts, Barbara S. Ottaway
  • Journal:
    European Journal of Archaeology / Volume 6 / Issue 2 / 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 January 2017, pp. 119-140
    Print publication:
    2003

  • The widespread employment and acceptance of use-wear analysis on materials such as flint and bone has not been accompanied by a parallel development in archaeometallurgy. This article explores its potential and problems through the investigation of socketed axes in eastern Yorkshire, in England and south-east Scotland during the late Bronze Age. Experimental work on modern replications of socketed axes was compared with wear traces on prehistoric socketed axes. The results indicate that prehistoric socketed axes had been used as multi-purpose tools, but that the nature and extent of their uses before deposition varied considerably. By combining use-wear analysis with contextual information on socketed axes in the late Bronze Age landscape, ideas concerning their significance can be explored.