Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2680
Site: England,Oxfordshire,Dorchester, near,1873
Parish: Dorchester
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1873
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 405
Patina: Light brown
Other: Width: edge 70mm; centre 25mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: centre 8mm; 26mm,Weight: 405.17 gms
Description: Pronounced flanges. Stop ridge low, below level of flanges. Edge hammered.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 76, Fig 57