Object: flanged Axe
Classification: Haft
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Barnet Museum,On loan from Christopher Giles,Clifford Road, New Barnet (June 1959)
Site: England,Hertfordshire,near Hitchin,1941
Parish: Near Hitchin
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TL 18 29
Year of discovery: 1941
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Reed green patina in small areas; rest pocked/flaked to dull and brighter green dry surfaces; very little rubbed to gold. Edge fairly sharp due to corrosion, butt and flange crests also; semi-fawn ?soil in pock holes.
Other: Length: 122.5mm,Width: edge 49mm; shoulders 28mm; butt 21.8mm,Breadth flange 18.5mm + 16.5mm,Th. stop 13.0mm
Description: Septum rises to slight ledge-stop; broad raised panel below stop defined by bevels and probably converged to narrower rib low on blade; had slight shoulders to sides; much of detailed form probably created or refined by forging - hammer ripples in patina; edge-bevel not evident now.
Remarks: Loose typed label: "found in a wood near Hitchin in 1941.",Black ink inscription: "Hitchin 1941",SN May 78,PI; CI; SI