Object: Wing-flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hull Municipal Museums
Site: England,Yorkshire E. Riding,Holme-on-Spalding Moor,Tollingham Farm,(so stated by T. Sheppard, Curator in [GH?] 13.v.40): but type is definitely exotic (see below), and so this might be regarded with reserve.,See letter from C.F.C Hawkes to T. Sheppard, 22 May 1940, filed in Brit. + Med. Dept., Brit Mus, and his reply (ibid.) 24 May, in which however reason is given for accepting it (cf. mould from Hotham, Yorkshire).
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Holme-on-spalding Moor
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Associations: None
Description: Top end cut down, and attempt as further cut from both edges just below.
Publications: To be published in Hull Mus. Bronze Impt. Catalogue (1941?).
Remarks: Before cutting down of top this was lower and may have been notched: type is anyhow unlike W. European majority of winged axes, and resembles S. German (eg. Kraft, Kult der BZ in Suddeutchland, Inf IV): provenance however well vouched for.