Object: Battle Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private collection, Lord Howard de Walden, 1923, Belgrave Square SW
Site: albania, ioannina 1819
Country: Albania
Year of discovery: 1819
Length (mm): 180
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 73
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 907
Patina: dark blackish green, with golden bronze showing
Surface: smooth
Other: Site - Ioannina is a city in modern Greece - although Janina was a subregion of the Ottoman Empire that encompassed most of Albania.,  Width: edges 72.71; centre 40,  Thickness: 26.5 middle,  Weight: 907.2 gms
Remarks: Labelled: Bipennis, or double headed Macedonian Battle Axe, discovered near Ioannina in Albania in 1819. The only known specimen.