Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Baldwin, Mrs. E.M. - private (1982),48 Salisbury Road, Dover,Formerly recorded in Collection of husband, Mr. C.E. Baldwin, Headmaster of Camberley County School; they were given it by Mrs. Baldwin's father Mr. Woodruff. Woodruff had received it from his uncle (who had adopted him) Mr. E.W. Fry, and architect in Dover.,At one time prior to 1935, on loan to St. Lawrence College Science Museum, St. Lawrence on Sea, Farmgate (NBI)
Site: England,Kent,Dover,Buckland
Parish: Dover
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TR 30 42
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 380
Surface: Most dulled goldy-brown, with dark brown mainly in furrows; most crests ribbed to brighter gold; areas of textured fir green overlying much of rev. blade panel, and limited areas above.
Composition: Mettalurgy - Analyst: Res. Lab
Description: Dimensions: L 131.5mm; We 77.3mm; Wst 28.8mm; Wbt 19.5mm; Bfg 20.2mm; Hfg 4mm; Tst 13.3mm; Teb 12mm; D.e.b 25mm; Tbt 1.5mm; Wt 380g,Typology: on rev. stop very slight concavity above stop: [?denbilation] of inside fg. edge continues above stop on three of flanges (2 rev.),Manufacture: groove across butt is closed up - shows only as hairline crack, just on reverse face of butt; also obliterated on reverse side; developed bl. tip hollows.,Condition: one blade tip possibly little damaged and reworked in ant. anc. diffuse bevel along top edges; this tip also does converse more steeply than other, but is sim. angle to that at centre of c. edge; good undam. edge.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN July 1983,Source: Visit