Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scottish Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh.,1879. John Balfour. D.C. 32.
Site: Scotland,Fife,Markinch,Balbirnie Estate,Dams
Parish: Markinch
County: Fife
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): edge 62, butt 24, centre 29
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 249.3
Patina: Patinated.
Description: Edge fairly sharp but somewhat chipped. Hammered ridge on either face at butt. Ornament same on both faces; arcs formed by double groove with row of punctured dots in each.
Publications: Anderson, Scotland in Pagan Times, Bronze & Stone Age, pp. 196-7. Fy.208;,Proc Soc. Ant. Scot. XIII. 120:,Evand ABI p.61, Fig 26.,Catalogue Nat. Mus. Scot, 1892 p.130. Fy.