Object: Wing-flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 1960.11-7.4,Formerly Private Collection, Mr. H. Knowles, Esq., 49 Shakespear Road, Hanwell W7, obtained from the late Sir Hercules Read in 1912.
Site: England,Oxfordshire,Long Wittenham,Wittenham Field
Parish: Long Wittenham
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 54 93
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 127
Width (mm): 30
Edge (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 397
Patina: Black patina almost all over.
Other: Width: edge 54mm; butt 30mm,Weight: 14 oz = 396.893 gms
Description: Sloping stop-ridge. Wings hammered over.
Publications: Is this provenance assured? It is a characteristically Irish type among an Irish collection.
Remarks: Inacc. drawing.