Object: Flat Axe Hammer
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1927.2362, Evans Colln.
Site: England,  dorset ;] weymouth, preston down,, 1866
Discovery context: downland
Parish: Preston
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1866
Length (mm): 160
Width (mm): below butt 24
Edge (mm): 75
Thickness (mm): at ridge 12
Weight (g): 311.13
Patina: brown (Evans & Crawford describe it like dark green morocco, sage-green). Patina flaked off in places
Surface: grained
Composition: Faces taper from low ridge above centre.  Slight flanges - Secondary edge, low curve.  Longitudinal punch marks covering faces, crossed by 2 bars of chevrons, running in opposite directions, on ridge & above edge.
Publications: J. Evans, Anc. Br. imps p.46, fig. 5, O.G.S. Crawford, Geog, Journ. XL (1912), p.308 (flat celts list)