Object: Adze
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Herts County Museum, St. Albans,Lent by Capt. J. H. Ball, RAF,(From Canon Greenwell's Collection)
Site: Site unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 269
Width (mm): across socket 56; blade at butt 45
Edge (mm): 72 1/4
Thickness (mm): socket 26
Weight (g): 1091.46
Patina: Traces of patina medium green.
Surface: Smooth, reddy brown copper. Rougher on the underside (in hollows of blade, etc.) from casting. Traces of patina over this roughness.
Composition: Copper