Object: Flat Axe
Classification: Decorated
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, W.G. 1805-1808, 1807, Given by J. Pierpont Morgan Esq., 1909
Site: England, NORTH YORKSHIRE, Willerby,, Wold Farm, Folkton,, Round Barrows
Discovery context: farm, barrow
Parish: Willerby
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TA, 00, 79
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 14.7
Width (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 4.5
Weight (g): 390
Patina: bright bronze
Other: Lower Left, in a different hand: "Inacc.”
Associations: see Remarks
Description: Transvers ridge + surface decoration
Publications: Archaeologia LII, 1, 2 + 3.
Remarks: One of four flat axes, found placed together on edge in the undisturbed material of a Round Barrow (Greenwell’s No. CCXXXV.  No doubt an original votive deposit + separate from a beaker interment.