Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Walters, Mr. Duncan J. - (private 1990), 41 Stanley Road, Mansfield, Notts NG18 5AA
Site: Nottinghamshire, nr. Mansfield, found recently (Nov. 1990) amongst soil and rubble removed by mechanical excavators during the conversion of an area of disused farmland -> industrial estate.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Mansfield
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 53 61
Year of discovery: 1990
Surface: mostly browny green with low irregularities; mini-pocking to brighter green
Associations: Single
Description: Dimensions: EL 87.5; EWe 27.2; Wbt 10.0; MT 4.0; Wt 33.2; Tbt 1.0, Typology: No sign of flanges or stop bevel; approx. plano-convex in long section but flatter face undulates a little; sides flat., Manufacture: no defined edge bev. survives., Condition: none of edge extant - one point prob. very close.
Remarks: DF: S, Rec. SN Jan 1991., Source: Sb. A.