Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Bent,Haft-flanged Axe' in PPS 1959
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1927.2361, Evans Collection
Site: England,Cambridge,Burwell Fen,1870
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 130
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 23
Weight (g): 276
Surface: Yellow bronze, with a little oxide.
Other: Width: edge 60mm; butt 24mm,Weight: 275.55 gms
Description: Flanges well developed, hammered into 3 facets. Slight shoulders. No stop-ridge.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 74, fig 53,Cyril Fox, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, p. 54