Object: Wing-flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Chichester Institute. Sold to Museum of Newport, Mon. 1923
Site: Ireland.
Discovery context: auction
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): butt 25.5
Edge (mm): 44.5
Thickness (mm): 26.5; 31; 11; 13.5
Weight (g): 333
Patina: a very thin patina with dark bronze showing through - all over.
Surface: smooth
Composition: Bronze
Description: The stop ridge is very slight & one wing is bent & broken.