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Sir Hans Sloane's Osmondthick Axe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Stephen Briggs
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 124 - 125
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1982

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1 Antiq. J. lviii (1978), 246–59; partic. 252, n. 60.Google Scholar

2 See Braunholtz, H. J., Sir Hans Sloane and Ethnography (British Museum, 1970).Google Scholar The writer consulted photocopies of the original now in the Dept. of Medieval and Later Antiquities.

3 The latter observation repeats that made in correspondence with Richardson, loc. cit., n. 1.

4 The measurements are taken from B. M. Stowe MS. 1023, fol. 17.

5 The Kiddal axe was noted by Elgee, F. and Elgee, H. W. in The Archaeology of Yorkshire (1933), p. 258Google Scholar under ‘Thorner’. In her survey of the Bronze Age, Keighley, J. J. juxtaposes the Kiddal axe and Osmondthick find in her text, though makes no connection between them (p. 110 in Faull, M. L. and Moorhouse, S. A. (eds.), West Yorkshire: an Archaeological Survey to A.d. 1500, vol. 1, (Wakefield, 1981).Google Scholar I wish to acknowledge the assistance of T. G. Manby, M. D. McLeod, S. Needham, Ms. E. J. Page and Mrs. L. Webster in the compilation of this note.