Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: ? Lost. See Note on from Eyton Hall.,Formerly in possession of one of the Mr. Hoopers of Kinnersley.,1925
Site: England, shropshire,preston upon the weald moors,in a field about 20 yards se of the culvert, where the crow brook croses the main road from kinley wick to preston. site marked on 6 inch o.s. shrops street 36 nw. marshy ground along edge of stream. dug up by a labourer, william pickering.
Parish: Preston Upon The Weald
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 175
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 78
Other: Width: edge 78mm; butt 24mm
Associations: Found with four others.
Publications: Miss. C. Eyton. Geology of N. Shrops (1869), p. 89 ("Celts of Artistic Workmanship"),"Bye Gones" 23 Mar. 1910 ("Cooper" misprint for Hooper),Kelly's Directory. 1913. p. 18 [Rev. W. Houghton Trans Severn Valley F. C. 1871, Vol. 1865-73, p. 106.,Shrops. Arch. Trans. VII (1884) 349 mentions one Celt.,Shrops. Arch. Trans. LIV (1953) 1241-8 (Chitty) (Off-point in Nots, Oxon, Shrop, "Prehistory Pamphlets holder) see L.F. Chitty's letter of 3.4.1954.
Remarks: Approx. Measurements,Drawn from tracing from a tracing from Ordnance Survey Note Book (original) 36 Plan 2 Salop.  Extract from O.N.B. "The rough sketch (full size) given below represents one of the sides of the Celt which Mr. Hooper showed me."