Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, 141.,Foster Bequest.
Site: Ireland
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): butt 26
Edge (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 269
Description: A label is marked "Ireland", Robinson Collection". Slight flanges & stop ridge. Ornamented below the stop with two vertical grooves enclosed by two ridges, each of which runs to the round bevel which is marked out in the same way - two ridges enclosing a groove. All the ornamentation is very shallow & faint. The sides are decorated with fluted rope pattern which disappears towards the butt.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 8. Catalogue is lost.,Foster Bequest 6. Catalogue.