Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

ill. ; 24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

A palstave of the Nordic type was handed over to the District Museum in Piła in 2003. No axes of this type have ever been found in Poland. The state of preservation of the artifact, reveal-ing extensive damages, could be related to the scrap yard where it appeared. The sloppy execution of the ornament could be an indication that the artifact is in fact a modern replica. Traseological examination and elemental composition analysis (XRF) revealed production imperfections and an atypical chemical composition of the casting alloy not encountered in the Bronze Age. The results lead to the conclusion that the artifact is indeed a replica of an axe typically found in the territories of Denmark and Sweden. The findings add to the discussion on the presence of replicas of archaeological finds in museum collections.

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Relation:

Archeologia Polski

Volume:

68

Start page:

357

End page:

369

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:240292 ; 0003-8180 ; doi:10.23858/APol68.2023.012

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 320 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 321 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 319 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open