Object: FLAT AXE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM      79.12-9.3, or Greenwell Collection
Site: YORKSHIRE NORTH,, Butterwick,,, Greenwell Barrow XXXIX,,, Greenwelll Barrow XXXIX,
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Butterwick
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SE  9788    /  7317 (O.S.)
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 102
Width (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): Max. T. 11.0
Weight (g): W.e. 58.8
Patina: areas dark brown - gold - grassgreen p.--mainly haft end; mostly covered with varied light green
Surface: areas dark brown - gold - grassgreen p.--mainly haft end; mostly covered with varied light green coarse textured surface;
Composition: Res. Lab for Arch. Oxford Univ.  / Al [} 86.2; Sn. 12.5;  Pb < 0.02; As 0.85; Sb 0.16; Ni 0.026; Bi < 0.008; Ag 0.22; Fe < 0.004; Britton, 1863, 302 no. 9
Other: Under SITE info, the words "Greenwell Barrow   XXXIX" are in different ink and different handwriting., First 3 lines of SITE info have been written in over whited-out text., Different ink and handwriting for lines 1-3 of SITE info, for GRID info and for PRBAF info.,
Associations: CONTEXT:  Grave
Description: TYPOLOGY:  thin butt tending to have flattened top; good rounded aubal thickening to body, but no defined bench line; e. bev. evid; no apparent shaping of sides on low flanges--but acc. v. slight lipping of body corners, MANUFACTURE:  sl. rippling of some sur.s--hammering; str.2 down body probl anc. grmks, CONDITION:   [ indecipherable, blurred] to mainly intact -  fairly sharp; one bl. tip 56. blunted, minor dents/chips
Publications: Greenwell, 1877, 188-89, 45 fig. 38,  Evans, 1881, 41 fig. 2, 150, UNDER METALLURGY:, Britton, 1863, 302 no. 9
Remarks: LOWER RIGHT CORNER [in pencil]:    C 1, UNDER ARCHIVE QUADRANT:, PRBAF:  1165 [?] for Greenwell Cat., AFI - check mark,  SI   - check mark,  CI   - check mark, Source - BM