Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oaxham Museum, O.S. 368,Previously in collection of V.B. Crowther-Beynon
Site: England,Northamptonshire,Billing
Parish: Billing
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SP 80 62
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 16
Edge (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 12
Surface: Dark olive green patina; much of one face and parts of remainder flaked to dry dull green surface; edge intact and sharp - but gold traces; bright gold along fg. crests; tips very prob. broken off in ant.
Other: Lenght: 103.3mm,Width: e. 54mm; Wbt: 16.2mm; Bfg 15mm; T st 11.5mm
Description: St. bev. with 3 arc-furrows below; at least one, poss. 2 or 3, furrows on lower blade above edge bevel; four cables on fg. sides - very oblique and "S" shaped; twist along body; small punched groove in one blade tip side.
Publications: Megaw and Hardy, 1938, 300 no. 66
Remarks: SN July 78,PI; CI; SI