Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Mus. Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 10)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): 23
Weight (g): 338
Surface: Grass green patina over parts of one face and one side, mainly lost on rev. face and side; pocking to light green dry sur. and some lumpy corr.
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 135.5mm; EWbl 23.3mm; EBfg 23.3mm; Bst 14mm; Wt. 338.4 gms,Typology: travesl of sl. central ridge on bl. faces descending from 'U' shield - sl. emphasised ridge; bump stop dipped in centre, as also sep. floor; stop on rev. was prob. placed lower,Manufacture: depression near base of rev. sep - cg. flaw; traces of broad low flattened cg. ft. on fg. sides - prob. fully removed on bl. sides to double facet.,Condition: both corners of bl. broken in ant - breaks dustry corr. sur. with soil embedded; main break with 2 facets - gold flecked, recent rubbing?; central part of e. also but blunt; butt end all broken sur.- dusty corr. and soil; all fg. crests dam.- anc. dam and corr. - except tiny stretch of one fg.; much of design detail lost through deterioration.,Attached material: yellow-brown soil traces
Remarks: PIF; AFI; DF S; SI; CI; Rec. SN Jan 79,Source Sb A,Sub. Inf. Zillwood, 78 Sept.