Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum,J. 93,473,Bateman Collection
Site: England, derbyshire,parwich,in a plantation called [?shultlestone] on parwich moor,3 june 1848
Parish: Parwich
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1848
Length (mm): 138
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 85
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 347
Patina: Dark green patina
Surface: Corroded. One side bears the impression of fern leaves.
Other: Width: butt 27mm; centre 37mm; edge 85mm,Thickness: centre 13mm
Associations: In a barrow with contracted inhumation, associated with bronze dagger (93,448), a jet bead and a circular flint.
Publications: Journ. Brit. Arch vii. (1852) 216-217.,Bateman, T. Ten Years Digging; 34-5.,Abercromby, J. Bronze Age Pottery, i. 57.,Archaeologia, XLiii, 445,Geographical Journal (Aug. + Sept 1912), 308.,D.A.J. (1955), p. 112,Catalogue of Bateman Antiquities (S.C.M. 1899), p. 82.