Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2679
Site: England,Oxfordshire,Dorchester, near
Parish: Dorchester
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 144
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 371
Patina: Brown
Other: Width: edge 60mm; centre 25mm; butt 24mm,Thickness: centre 6mm; 29mm,Weight: 370.6 gms
Description: Pronounced flanges continuing until edge of blade is hammered out crescent-wise. Low stop-ridge below level of flanges. Butt imperfect. Edge notched and damaged. Depression below stop-ridge, [item?] slight midrib.