Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Miss. E. Binyon, Hoe Court, Colwall, Herfordshire
Site: England, worcestershire,claines, north[;[]bevere island,(in r. severn 3 miles n. of worcester),c. 1809,label pasted on blade: "battle axe [deleted and "ancient british knife" substituted] dug up in the island of bevere near worcester, about 1809."
Parish: Claines
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1809
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 198
Patina: Evenly worn; colour greenish black; vestiges of blackish patina. Probably plain.
Other: Width: edge 59mm; centre 33mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: 9mm centre; 8mm sides,Weight: 7 oz = 198.447
Description: Evidently cast in one open storm mould; one face is flatter than the other. Thickest at centre. Sides have been hammered; one recently polished, the other nicked to test metal. Butt sharp, edge blunt, each a low curve.
Publications: Allies, Antiq. Worcs. (Ed. 2, 1856), 151, Pl. 4, 11 (p.98),Lence, Evans, A.B.I, 42,V.C.H. Worcs. I. 195,O.G.S Crawford, Geog. Journ. XL (1912), 310 (Flat Celts List)