Object: Double Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Craven Museum, Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, no. A63
Site: England,Yorkshire,N. Riding,Whitby
Parish: Whitby
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 523
Patina: Very dark greenish back in colour: cleaned off in one patch which is golden bronze.
Surface: Smooth except for one face near the cutting edges where it is considerably pitted.
Composition: Bronze (Copper, 90.6; Tin 8.9),Chemical Analysis, (B.M. Laboratory, Nov. 1937): Copper 90.6; Tin 8.9; Lead Trace; Antimony Trace; Iron Trace; Thus to be called bronze, not copper (as Elgee [...])
Description: Double axe (if specimen from Topsham, Devon) both cutting edges unsymmetrical. Surface rather knocked about, with scratches and chips missing, especially along all the edges. Transverse socket.
Publications: Elgee, F., Early Man in N.E. Yorkshire (1930), pp. 62-3, fig. 20, top, and Pl XI, fig. 1.