Object: Winged axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hertford Museum,No. 3
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Little Amwell,Prior's Wood
Parish: Little Amwell
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 353 115
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 115
Edge (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 4
Weight (g): 213
Surface: Mottled patina - milky green, dark brown-green, gold; some serious pocking and pitting to pale green dry sur.
Composition: Metallurgy: Analyst: Craddock - B.M.; Bibliog: Res. Lab. File no. 4065 BBA 420; Composition: drill into side of body below loop: Cu 86.50; Pb 1.70; Sn 12.80; Ag 0.06; Fe 0.02; Sb 0.15; Ni 0.05; Au nd; Co nd; As 0.02; Cd nd; Bi 0.005; Zn 0.005
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 115mm; EWe 33.2; Tbt (centre) 3.5mm; Tbl 13.8mm; minTsep 4.3mm; maxEHfg 14mm; Wt 212.56 g.,Typology: cutting e. bevelled, but no distinct line; "V" end to septums; central butt notch with rough sur., one intact corner prong folded over - flat top; bevels on sides at wing/bt. junction; sl. bev. at top of sep.,Manufacture: cg. gl. around lp. only; bl. tip hollows - bl. sides sl. concave up to wgs; no obvious hmks or gmks at edge;  hmks in one sep. - manuf. or mutilation?,Condition: one bt. prong, 3 wing ends, + past of fourth, all broken off in antiquity; surviving wing battered by hmks - anc. dam.; lp squashed to one side; virt. all of edge chipped - one very small part poss. on orig. line.,Attached Material: some fawn soil under wing
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 78,Source Sb. A.,Sub. Inf. C. Partridge - Herts. Co. Arch. 12.9.78