Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Decorated
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,presented by H.C. Day Esq. MA
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Sawston,Sawston Paper Mills
Parish: Sawston
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 114
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 22
Weight (g): 266
Patina: Dark green patina corroded patches emerald green and lumpy on base and blade. Between the flanges a different sort which is bright blue and not so deep.
Surface: Corroded in places.
Other: Length: 113.5mm,Width: edge 63mm; butt 21mm
Description: Curved flanges and faint stop ridge. Flanges decorated with herring bone pattern.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 10. Catalogue lost,Bronzes 79. Numbbers to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 115, May 1884