Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Bent
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 1911-78
Site: Ireland, Co. Down, Donaghadee
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): at shoulders 52
Edge (mm): 67
Thickness (mm): flange 25; body at stop-ridge18
Patina: Black patina, worn through to yellow-golden metal.
Surface: somewhat rough.
Description: Curved butt, squared off at edge. Thin bar stop-ridge, slightly oblique. Pronounced shoulders. Raised V punched up by hollowing faces above edge. Edge recurved, somewhat battered. Bar stops & 16 transverse ridges on sides of wings.
Remarks: Coloration suggests burial in peat: there is a bog at Donaghadee.