Object: Wing-flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Black Gate Museum,Newcastle-upon-Tyne,Donor Dr. A. Raistrick, 1932.
Site: England,Durham,Birtley,Blythe and Co.'s Clay Pits (Brickyard) in fill of sand and gravel,Dec. 1931
Parish: Birtley
County: County Durham
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1931
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 17
Weight (g): 227
Patina: Rich greenish-blue patina.
Composition: Bronze: Copper 82.73%; Tin 17.29%; Iron trace; Nickel Trace
Other: Width: edge 52mm; flanges 24mm,Weight: 8 oz = 226.796 gms
Description: Flanges inbent, but cracked and further folded by accident.
Publications: A. Raistrick, Ph.D., M. Sc. Pr. Durham [...] Phil. Soc. IX.ii (1932) 47-54, Fig.,with analysis by J.A. Smythe, Ph.D., D.Sc., pp. 50-4.,P.S.A.N. 4. V., No. 5 (March, 1932), 212.