Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Haft
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge. No. 98 Murray Collection.
Site: Ireland, Kings Co, Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 142.5
Width (mm): middle 31; butt 31
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 16; 31.5
Weight (g): 492
Patina: dark brown patina & some metal showing.
Surface: smooth & dull
Description: Shallow stop & no ridge. Shield shaped ridge below the stop which springs from the juncture of the wings, (or below the stop the large wings die into a flat bead which forms a large pointed oval shield on either face); sides crossed at neck by a straight bead. Very blunt butt.