Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Acc. No. 6743/1, Donor: Mr. R.A. Smith, Netherwood Manor, Tenbury Wells, Worcs.
Site: herefordshire, thornbury, netherwood, this provenance is extremely dubious.
Parish: Netherwood
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 16.6
Width (mm): 7.8
Thickness (mm): 01.00 (ridge), 01.1 (flange)
Surface: brown, much
Composition: Blade chipped; overall pattern of slight short diagonal incised lines.  Now very faint.  Faces taper from slight ridge above centre.  Secondary grinding surface.
Other: This is the first instance where I've encountered measurements written with zeros in front.  Assuming they are still metric, Also there is a signature written in the bottom left corner but I'm unable to decipher it.
Associations: With 6743/2,/3,/4  Flange axe, [...]-flanged axe,, side-looped spearhead
Description: pitted, large areas missing
Publications: Trans, Woolhope Naturalist's Field Club 1947, pp. xlv - xlix, and photograph (L.F. Chitty)