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See Stone fig.101 #4 and item na141. 22 3/4” overall length. Turned wood haft with banded grip and ball terminal, reinforced from the grip to the head with an iron spine secured with rivited copper floral rosettes. Iron head with square section socket and thick wedge section axe blade of backswept form. Shows its great age throughout with a few old chips to the haft, and a medial crack secured with copper pins in its working life. The head surface with a little surface rust, and a few nicks from use. Forging crack to the socket with the head slightly pulled away at that point. Virtually untouched from its centuries in a south Indian arsenal. The major Tanjore wars of the period were the territorial conquests of Ragunatha Nayak in the 1620’s and Maratha Wars of the 1670’s. This axe may have served in both as well as other conflicts