Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Richard Cavendish,  Holker Hall,  Cark-in-Cartmel,  Lancs
Site: (lancashire), cumbria, aldingham parish, gleaston castle, found in 1776 'by digging in the ruins of gleaston castle".
Parish: Aldingham
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1776
Length (mm): 168.28
Edge (mm): 124.88 across cutting edge
Thickness (mm): 13.76 (greatest)
Weight (g): 1056.01
Associations: None
Description: origin: The axe is of the Hardy & MegawType I (See P.PS. iv. 272 ff) and of Irish origin
Publications: Archaeologia V. 106. Pl. vii. 1,  Evans - Ancient Bronze Instruments p.43.,  Trans Cumb & West Ant & Arch Soc (O.S.) xv. 161. Pl. 1.,  Barrow Naturalists Field Club xv. 118;,  C & W A & A Soc(N.S.) xl.121.; ,  Proc. Prehistoric Soc iv. (1938) p.300.
Remarks: Compiler: Clare Fey,  The outline was supplied by Richard Cavendish and I have not been given the opportunity to see the axe to draw it.