Object: flanged Axe
Classification: Haft
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,(1929),R.S. Newall esq. FSA,Fisherton de la Mere House, Wylye, Wilts.
Site: England,Wiltshire,Little Langford,South boundary of parish on Dinton-Wyke Ridge.,Ploughed up.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Little Langford
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 158
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 29
Weight (g): 654
Patina: Dark apple-green patina, flaked off in places.
Other: Length: 158mm (drawn as 160mm),Width: edge 55mm; Tip of shield 23mm; butt 20mm,Thickness: wings 29mm,Weight: 654.4 gms
Associations: A socket celt from the same place is not stated to have been found in direct association.
Description: Flanges curve inward to form shield on face. Hammer marks on edge. Rectangular projections on sides in similar position to those on palstave from Bishop Down Farm, Salisbury, in the same collection: Mr. Newall suggests that both are from the same mould.