CATALOGUE

   AXE CASTING MOULD  
Penya Negra (Crevillent)

Sandstone
h:16'7 cm; w: 8'3cm; e: 4'3 cm
Bronze Final
800-550 BC.
 

Casting mould for the manufacture of axes with lateral appendages, made from a rectangular block of sandstone with a trapezoidal-shaped recess on one side and two other recesses as appendages on both sides of the block.
This piece, which is actually incomplete as it would have formed part of a bivalve mould, is used for the manufacture of a specific type of tool -an axe with lateral appendages- whose approximate chronological context goes from 1100 to the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The type in question is very rare in the Levantine peninsular area, being more frequent in the Atlantic area with which the Penya Negra workshop has been linked.
S.C.: 1576
SIMÓN GARCÍA, J.L., 1998.
GONZÁLEZ PRATS, A., 1983.
RUIZ-GÁLVEZ PRIEGO, M.L., 1990