Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Devizes Museum,Stourhead Collection, 148
Site: England,Wiltshire,Wilsford,Salisbury Plain,Normanton,Bush Barrow 158 (Hoare)
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Wilsford
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 160
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 187.5
Other: Width: edge 70mm; butt 23mm; centre 26mm,Thickness: 8mm; 6mm
Associations: Unburnt burial, gold ornaments, 2 rivetted daggers.
Description: Side flange scarcely perceptible; tapers each way from central ridge.
Publications: An. Wilts, I, 203,Devizes Museum Catalogue, Pt. I, 148,GC 178; DM 747
Remarks: Seen,Slight ridge, scarcely a flange, along blade.