Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Kiar, Mr. Stephen - Private (1987),Flat 2, 113 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 9SJ,Bought from Fox & Co. Antiquities Cat. 3, p. 7 - 928/888, formerly recorded by Norwich Museum when in possession of Mr. M. J. Younge, 3 St. Mary's St., Feltwell.
Site: England, norfolk,feltwell,little oulsham,alt site: "hockwold fen",found on the surface of an arable field in 1978 by a metal detector user, apparently in a part of feltwell common known as little oulsham. nb: another piece owned by mr. m. j. younge in 1981 was in the lord mcalpine collection by 1987. incorrect provenance - hockwold fen given in fox's catalogue
Discovery context: metal detector
Parish: Feltwell
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 6947 9192
Year of discovery: 1978
Length (mm): 105
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 202
Surface: Most pitted badly - dark brown + dull green; some high points well rubbed to bright gold; doubtless "cleaned" vigorously, no active corrosion
Associations: Single
Description: Dimensions: L 105mm; We 60mm; Wbt 22mm; Max T 9.3mm; Wt. 202.3 gms,Typology: sides now rounded,Manufacture: vague suggestion of edge bevel - but likely reworked by modern 'cleaning',Condition: whole of outline seems damaged, both butt and butting edge blunt
Publications: a) Norfolk Mus. Service Records Co. No 17193,b) Needham 1983 (PhD), 256 Nf 14