Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Mus. Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 8)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 372
Surface: Mottled dark to milky green, scattered limps of brightish green corr. assoc'd with pocks; breaks at edge, butt, and one fg. grey-coloured dry sur.
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 136mm; EWe 48.5mm; EWbt 20.9mm; Bfg 29.6mm; Tsep 8.5mm; Bst 13mm; Wt. 372.1 gms,Typology: rounded medial ridge on bl faces, with concave flanking on one face, stems from rounded 'V' shield rib joining fg. bases; shield encloses sloped surface below ledge - stop - rounded; three short-thin ribs meet ledge on one face; sep. v. sl. dished with crisp side angles; fg. crests narrow and prob. mainly rounded; neat flattened vert. bars across base of fg. sides,Manufacture: no trace of cg. gls - fully removed, and bl. sides forged concave; hmks and dimples on sides and bl. faces, no extant e. bev.,Condition: all edge broken - anc. no sign of corr. dam.; butt break pale grey coloured dry sur. - prob. anc. as a small traves of soil embedded, parts of fgs broken - prob. in ant., but also some corr. dam. and modern rubbing - gold glecked; some striction down rev. bl. face - recent cleaning,Attached Material: Small traces of yellowy brown soil.
Remarks: PIF; AFI; DF S; SI; CI; Rec. SN Jan 79; Source Sb A; Sub. Inf. Zillwood sept. 78