Bronze Age axe, Beeston Castle, Beeston, Cheshire

Bronze Age axe, Beeston Castle, Beeston, Cheshire

Photograph taken 2007 © Judith Dobie. Source Historic England Archive Graphics Team ref: ic009_008

Reconstruction drawing showing how a Bronze Age axe blade excavated at Beeston Castle may have been attached to a wooden handle to form an axe.

Location

Cheshire Beeston

Period

Prehistoric (to AD42)

Themes

Bronze Age objects found at Beeston Castle, including axe heads and a knife. Beeston Castle is located on a rocky crag above the Cheshire plain. The site has been occupied since prehistoric times and excavations have revealed remains spanning the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods. Beeston Castle itself was begun in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blundeville, the Sixth Earl of Chester. These objects are now in the care of English Heritage (2011).
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Stone Age to Iron Age: Part 2 - The Bronze Age

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bronze age reconstruction drawing prehistoric tool axe