Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Society of Antiquaries Collection, B26,(presented 1861 by W. L. Lawrence, Esq. F.S.A),ehibited to the Society 22 Nov. 1860
Site: England, gloucestershire,whittington
Parish: Whittington
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SP 01 20
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 139
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 11
Surface: Rich orange-brown patina on one face, rest dull dark brown p.; flaking at bl. e. revealing dull green sur.
Description: Dimensions: L 138.5mm; We 77mm; Wbt 24.8mm; maxBfg 12.4mm; Tst 11.2mm; Te.bev. 10mm; Tbt 1.5mm,Typology: quite regular low flanges - sl. undulation on inner faces; sl. curved st. bev.; e. bev. with broad furrow above; rounded bev. at base of panel of dec.n; sl. thick bt. not flat-topped, two bevelled surfaces; loz. facets on sides, and tendency towards narrow longitudinal facets beveling flange crests,Manufacture: panel of dec.n. sl. irreg. vert. columns of chevrons; on one face a few pmks extend onto furrow - these seem more blurred, poss. pre-furrow manu.; hmks on sides within facets; v. fine 'brush' scoremarks across edge - poss. orig. gmks,Condition: part of edge mainly intact and sharp; much sl. dam. by p. chipping + by dent prob. ancient origin - poss. mod. interference as well; blade tips intact original; series of hmks defile lowest lozenge on either side - ancient.
Publications: a) P.S.A 2 I, 1859-61, 235,b) Loose hand-painted label,c) Minutes of Soc. of Ant. London Vol. XLII, 1856-62 - 22 Nov. 1860
Remarks: Circumstances:"Found at Whittington, Gloucestershire." (a); "...Given by W. L. Lawrence, Esq. F.S.A. 1861" (b); "Mr. W.L. Lawrence exhibited a bronze celt with lunate-edge and of wedge shape discovered at Whittington in Gloucestershire." (c) source of date of presentation unknown.,Labels/Markings: White ink B26; Loose hand-painted label,Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN Feb. 79,Sourve MV