Object: Miniature Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum,J.93,479.,Bateman Collection
Site: England, derbyshire,middleton by youlgreave,in a small barrow called borther low,4 september 1843
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Middleton By Youlgreave
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1843
Length (mm): 45
Width (mm): edge 28,centre28,butt 15
Edge (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 31.5
Other: Bateman, in 'Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire'. 48. describes it as about two south of Middleton by Youlgreave.
Associations: Found in a barrow with skeleton, burnt flint arrow head, pair of teeth of fox or dog, pieces of a plain coarse urn.
Publications: Bateman, T. Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire. 48,Abercromby, J. Bronze Age Pottery. i. 57,Evans, J. Ancient Bronze Implements. 42.,Geographical Journal (Aug and Sept. 1912) 208,Sheffield Museum Catalogue of Bateman Antiquities (1899) p.83,D.A.J. LXXV (1955) p.113.