Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cheltenham Museum, 1980:2182,No. 1,purchased from Mr. T. Firkins, 1980
Site: England, gloucestershire,oddington
Parish: Oddington
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SP 2239 2420
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 153
Width (mm): 30
Edge (mm): 94
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 483
Surface: Fragments of dull greeny-brown patina - occasional patches slightly shiny richer brown; much flaked (depths around 1mm) to dry dusty pale green sur.; occasional spots of bluey green lumpy corrosion.
Other: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN May 80,Source Sb A
Associations: 7a. Area Find/1. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 152.6mm; EWe 94.4mm; EWbt 29.5mm; max TE 11.7mm; wt 482.7 gms,Typology: intact body angles pretty crisp - no lipping though; intact side with double facet - ridge wanders a little from centre line causing some asymmetry; butt could have been flat-topped or otherwise alot has been lost,Manufacture: one face with fairly deep bevelled surface towards cutting edge - angle in profile not pronounced, and no defined line survives, one face appears slightly more bowed in profile than the other, possibly resulting from manu. in open mould,Condition: all damage could have resulted from corrosion; edge all lost,Attached Material: traces of yellow-fawn soil