Object: Low Flanged Axe
Classification: Barstop
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private, L. V. Owens, Esq. (Feb. 1936), "Pax Gate", Buffley, Herts. He is about to move to "Rodings" Carbone Hill, Cuffley, Now (Aug. 1939) Hertford Museum
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Cuffley,Found (Jan. or Feb 1936) in digging for a building near house "Rodings", Carbone Hill Cuffley
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Cuffley
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: 6" O.S Herts. XLI, NW
Year of discovery: 1936
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 62
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 477
Patina: Apparently the original patina was pale green, but this has been very largely craped off. It is still visible on the edges of the flanges, (which are rough) and in the pits towards the edge of the blade. The cutting edge is very pale green, almost white.
Surface: Smooth generally
Other: Width: edge 62mm; butt 27mm
Description: Features are very much defaced by extensive scraping and 'cleaning'. No loops; traces of heart shaped depression and central rib below stop ride: thus. Lumpy appearance on face of blade and sides; no loop; perceptible lump on sides just above stop ridges. Central edge completely worn away and is dull and thick; one side of butt scratches where patina has been removed. Where the patina has been removed, the metal is a dull brown colour (of rather "muddy" appearance). There are traces of bronze colour on the edges of the flanges.