Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lieut. Colonel John Jardine, Chamber Crescent South. The Park, Nottingham (1927),Given in 1927 to the Castle Museum, Nottingham,27-80
Site: England, nottingham,colwick (e. of nottingham),dredged from bed of river trent,1926
Discovery context: river,dredged
Parish: Colwick
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 165
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 92
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 555
Surface: Bright, cleaned with acid. Golden.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: edge 92mm; butt 29mm,Weight: 554.6 gms
Description: Punched ornament on faces partly rubbed away; lines near butt, cursive chevrons down blade, lateral chevrons incised to edge of very slight flanges due to hammering of sides.
Remarks: Spearhead (Cl. II) and cruched socketed celt in same collection, + large spear-head (Cl. IIIA) in Nottingham Art Museum, came from river bed at Colwick.