The author discusses a copper alloy shaft-hole pick-axe from Khurab, Makran, which dates from 1900 B.C. Radiographs and sampling show the object to be solid. The socket and camel figure regions are corrosion products, primarily cuprite. The blade contains metal, which on analysis by emission spectrography, was foundto be a copper-arsenic alloy with antimony and lead as major impurities, consistent with an early second millenium date. Possible methods of fabrication are discussed on the basis of radiographs and physical evidcnce. The object was cast in a solid single piece with thc socket created by a core within the mold held in place with a single cylindrical metal chaplet. The questions of lost wax casting or use of a piece mold, of the position of the mold during casting and of attachment of the object to a handle are discussed. Evidence relating to the Bactrian or dromedary identity of the camel is presented. The object was buried intact with a wood handle in place although no wood remains. The object has been broken since excavation. W. D. R. A radiograph of the casting is reproduced along with detailed photographs of the camel on the socket. (Numerous printing errors that appear in the Technical Appendix will be corrected in a Corrigenda to be published in the 1970 issue of Iran.) -- AATA