Object: flanged Axe
Classification: Haft
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Manchester Museum, L 47. Bought of G.C. Yates.
Site: Ireland.
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 95.5
Width (mm): middle 30.5; butt 25
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 23; 13; 12; 23.5
Weight (g): 269.83
Patina: a very thin cover of patina dark green, with dark bronze showing through.
Surface: fairly smooth. Rater large pockings all over.
Description: The middle of edge is burred. The sides might originally have been faceted & grooved (grooves running across), but any such marks are very indistinct now.