Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Borough of Newbury Museum,  I.63 (Old catalogue),  Given by Mr. J.W.Roake,  before 1854.
Site: England,  berkshire, newbury, the neighbourhood of exact site unknown
Parish: Newbury
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 170
Edge (mm): 76
Thickness (mm): 11.5
Weight (g): 520
Composition: Assay by analysis Copper 91.35, Tin 8.64, Total 99.99
Description: There are slight signs of flanges, but the surface is much decayed.
Publications: Victoria History of Berkshire. i.195.,  Geographical Journal August and September, 1912. 185.207.,  Man xiv.51.
Remarks: It has been suggested by Mr. O.G.S.Crawford (Geo. Journ.) that perhaps this may be the flat celt found on a gravel heath to the north of Newbury and exhibited by Mr. John Pardue in 1846. J.B.A.A.I. (1846) 337.