Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private,Chatsworth, Devon Collection,(Derbyshire),Acc. no. 1
Site: England, derbyshire,highlow
Parish: Highlow
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 221 802
Year of discovery: 1863
Length (mm): 160
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 90
Thickness (mm): 11
Surface: Fine fir green patina glossy; patches flaked to dull green of pale bluey green some spots of very white-green corr.
Associations: 1b. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 160mm; We 89.9mm; Wbt 27.7mm; max B fg. 10.5mm; H fg. 1.0; max T 11.2; T e. bev. 6.2; D.e.b. 7.5+,Typology: decn def. stops short of butt on both faces - made up of mixture of heavy and light punched stroked, often 'double-struck' ; sides with rather rounded double facet.,Manufacture: anc. grmks on edge - near vert. and v. fine,Condition: all butt rubbed dk. brown, prob. none original; edge all fractured - dk. brown + little orangey deposits: dent in faces looks ancient - caused fissure?
Publications: a) Jewitt, 1864, 64 lower fig.
Remarks: Labels: s/o rev. face, old-style inscription, brown ink: "Bronze Celt found at Highlow in 1863. see Reliquary Vol. IV" (covers much of decn),Metallurgy: Analyst: Res. Lab,Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: SI,Ext: CI,Rec. 5 Aug 81 SN,Source MV