I have an update.
Firstly, still no photo's of the objects in question.
However, I have now collected a range of Bronze Axe types as well as a reconstruction of a mounted axe (which I think IS very similar to how this axe originally looked). I think this explains your confusion about the...
Hi Tom/All,
Thanks for the feedback/info. I've also posted this on the Materials Information Society forum to see if they can give me a better feel if any books cover these sorts of failures.
Hi Tom, I'm sorry about the picture, as you can see Archy diagrams are often more about art than...
I have scanned in one diagram I have showing an axe head which is seen as possibly being ritually broken.
http://www.smartgroups.com/pictures/openpicture.cfm?GID=1414642&AlbumID=2663481&PictureID=10490010&Layout=D&Sort=Ordernum&Dir=desc
Sorry it's not much good.
I've emailed my collegue for...
Hi Scott,
I'm afraid right now the images I have got do not show the damage in sufficient detail to allow a proper analysis.
However, I will speak to my collegue and see what we can do.
I will get a few of the images that I do have and get them on a web site in the mean time.
I have a...
Hi, I hope I've come to the right place, I'm an archaeology researcher located in England with an engineering background and I've been asked to help a fellow researcher looking into possible reasons for failure of Bronze Age copper alloy artifacts such as axes.
It occurs to me this is a field...
