Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Bent,Haft-flanged Axe' in PPS 1959
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2593,T. Codrington, F.G.S., 1877
Site: England,Somerset?,Bought in Bristol
Discovery context: auction
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 398
Surface: Pitted green, worn.
Other: Width: edge 60mm; centre 29mm; butt 27mm,Thickness: centre 10mm; 27mm,Weight: 397.80 grms
Description: Shouldered type. Low curved stop-ridge. Edge a little polished on one face. One flange larger than the other, or less worn.  Circular pitting in middle line of both faces below stop-ridge.