Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,Foster Bequest
Site: Ireland,Co. Antrim,Ballymoney,Laaney
Parish: Ballymoney
County: County Antrim
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 94
Width (mm): butt 24; middle 28.5
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 9.5; 11.5; 29
Weight (g): 210
Patina: Green patina and dull metal showing through
Surface: Smooth and dull
Description: Very shallow stop ridge - nearer the edge than usual. On the sides is a boss, above the spring of the short cutting edge.
Publications: Foster Bequest 10, catalogue,Prehistoric Bronzes 11, the catalogue is lost