Object: Hammer-Flat Flanged Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hereford Museum and Art Gallery Acc. No. 6743/2,  Donor: Mr. R.A. Smith, Netherwood Manor, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Site: herefordshire, thornbury, netherwood, this provenance is extremely dubious
Parish: Netherwood
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 12.2
Width (mm): 06.2 max
Thickness (mm): 01.00 (ridge) 013 (flange)
Patina: One face very slight, partly lustrous; the other a rich chocolate brown
Associations: With 6743/1, /3, /4   Flanged axe, wing flanged axe, side looped spearhead
Description: In excellent condition.  Both faces, from slight ridge at centre to secondary grinding surface show slight rippling.  8 ripples are visible on the less patinated face.  Flange faces show similar rippling in three sections.
Publications: Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 1947, pp. xlv - xlix, and photograph (L.F. Chitty)
Remarks: Card signed: J. Macdonald