Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. J.M. Dame - private,Yaldhurst, Gun Lane, Blackboys, E. Sussex, TN22 SLA,-Acquired by Mr. Dame's father from a golfing friend at the Ferndean Golf Club, Dorset in the late 1920's - early 1930's
Site: unprovenanced,possibly dorset
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 127
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 82
Thickness (mm): 10
Surface: Areas rich brown patina: mainly flaked to green dry sur., or rubbed off.
Description: Dimensions: EL 126.8mm; We 82.2mm; max T 10mm; EWbt 33mm; T. e. bev. 6.5,Typology: faces rise towards edges slightly in places - but no flanges; no stop bev.; e. bev. extant; frag. of rain pattern dec. surviving on centre of one face; sides may have been facetted.,Condition: edge blunted, with two ? saw notches - not obviously recent; butt blunted - dull gold: recent dam.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN May 78,Source: MV (submitted to Lewes)