Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 5041
Site: England,Lancashire,Barrow in Furness,Roose,Found 1872 when digging foundations for houses at Mossfield at depth of 12 ins.
Parish: Roose
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Grid reference: 34/228696
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 89
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 163
Patina: None for the most part, but a little brown shading to orange.
Surface: Pitted
Other: Length: 3 1/2 ins. = 88.9mm,Width: (at cutting edge) 2 3/8 ins. = 60.325mm,Thickness: max 1/2 inch = 12.7mm,Weight: 5 3/4 ozs. = 163 gms
Associations: None
Description: Incipient flanges: stop ridge: butt turned over by blow.
Publications: Cumberland and Westmor. Ant. and Arch. Soc. Trans. O.S. XIV, 446 (illus.)
Remarks: Fran Barnes