Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Bristol City Museum (F2817),(Purchased 1936)
Site: England, somerset,ebbor (deer leap), near wells
Parish: Ebbor
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 68
Thickness (mm): 5
Patina: Removed by cleaning, 1954, as active corrosion was occuring.
Surface: Fairly smooth.
Composition: Probably bronze
Associations: None
Description: Thickness: 5mm (Balch's drawing shows it much thicker; but it has been in a state of active corrosopm and has bow (1954) been cleaned.)
Publications: H.E. Balch, Wookey Hole, 162, rpt. XXVIII, 10