Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Nash, Mr. P.  - private,  2 Biggin Close, Southgate West, Crawley
Site: sussex, handcross, peasepottage forest
Parish: Handcross
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 253 340
Year of discovery: 1978
Length (mm): 112
Width (mm): bt 39.3
Edge (mm): 64.8
Thickness (mm): 9.8 T at side with intact surface fragment on either face 7.3
Surface: fragments of smooth raised sur. - prob. near original - only tiny piece on face illustrated, larger patches on rev. - mainly rich fir green; sur. with scattered pocks & irreg. edges give way to dry  undulating sur. - mainly choc. brown;  some intermediate bevels fir green & light blue-green
Other: Other boxes:-,  Circumstances: found by Mr. P. Nash, 19 July 1978, immediately East of a N-S linear bank and about 4 m SE of a large tree thereon;  located c. 3" below surface of sand subsoil (beneath leaf mould) using a metal-detector, axe was lying flat (a),  Context: 8. Single
Description: Typology: faces retain sl. convexity in cross-section; sides were prob. near flat with angular corners between,  Condition: actual edges virt. all lost,  Attached Material: treated by Horsham Museum, 
Publications: a) Mr. Nash - SN, pers. comm.