Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Mus. Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 6)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 147
Width (mm): 27
Weight (g): 503
Surface: Mottled dark to grass green patina over much; areas flaked/pocked to dirty pale green; some brighter green lumpy corr.; coppery brown sur. at point of e. break; light gold along fg. break - hints of gold along other lower fg.
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 147.2mm; EWbt 26.5mm; EBfg 32mm; Bst 18.5mm; Wt. 503.4 gms,Typology: Slight  median ridge on bl. faces - descendind from "U" shield shaped emphasised ridge on rev.; prob. near triang. shield on obverse despite corr. dam.; near flat tops to fg. crests; stops are emphasised ridges - dipped in centre; sl. rounded sep angles; orig. crinoline bl. shape,Manufacture: flattened stumps of cg. fls. on fg. sides - little lipping; removed to bevel on bl. sides; some hammer rippling of bl. faces and sides - fragment of e. bev. intact; all hmks on fg. sides; moulding dimples on bl. faces and sep.; central moulding depression within either sheild,Condition: most broken with corr dam. and pres. anc.; part near orig. line but blunt - corr. c hipped; butt broken off in ant.; virt. whole of one fg. broken off prob.  in ant. but now light gold - ?polished; remaining fgs. little chipped by corr.,Attached material: traces fawn soil in sep and in butt end.
Remarks: PIF;AFI;S;SI;CI;Rec. SN Dec. 78; Source SbA; Sub Inf. Zillwood Sept 78