Object: FLANGED AXE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: PUBLIC MUSEUM, GLOUCESTER.
Site: ENGLAND,GLOUCESTERSHIRE,COLEFORD,On heap of waste material at entrance to an ancient working. 1918.
Parish: Coleford
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1918
Length (mm): 139
Width (mm): Blade 48.5; butt 94.5
Thickness (mm): on stop-ridge, 14.5
Weight (g): 352
Patina: Greenish-brown
Surface: Rough and pitted all over
Composition: Bronze
Associations: None
Description: Fair condition; edge blunted, slightly burred at one side.
Publications: Ant. Journal, XV, p.196; fig.