Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cheltenham Museum 1980:2183,  Purchased 1980 from Mr. T. Firkins
Site: gloucestershire, oddington
Parish: Oddington
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 33.58
Surface: V. patchy fragments of slighty shiny olive brown p. amidst longish areas of p. with sur. deteriorated to mott. pale olive to brown - some mini pocking assoc. ; much of butt and very [sic] edge flaked to light blue-green dry sur.
Associations: 7a area find / 1 hoard
Description: Description-dimensions:,  EL 143.0 mm ; EWe 84.2 ; EWbt 28.7 ; max. T. 9.0 ; wt 335.8 g,  Typology:,  Faces appear to have been virt. flat in cross section - sides slightly bowed poss with tendency to double facetting - but no crisp bevel extant ; intact body angles fairly crisp with minimal lipping in evidence; certainly no central bevel; despite loss of sur. but had evid. been pretty thin.,  Manufacture:,  Evid. for moderately set e. bev. - crest of bevel just perceptible in spots; some monor asymmetry in provilfe - but slightly flattter face is more curved close to butt than is reverse.  ,  Condition:,  No indication of dam. prior to corrosion etc. ; score/rub marks down either butt side & file ripples across either butt side, all assoc. with gold flecking - modern interference by finder and his colleagues ; none of c.e. intact,  Attached material:,  v. little trace of yellow soil, in one case forming accretion like spot with admixture of white grains (calcium?)