Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scottish Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh,No. DA9.
Site: Scotland,Roxburghshire,Melrose (near),Eildon,Found under a large cairn.
Parish: Melrose
County: Border
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 179
Width (mm): 12
Edge (mm): 79
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 361
Surface: Badly pitted.
Other: Length: 179.2mm,Width: edge 79.2mm; flanges 12.5mm & 11.6mm,Thickness: centre 8.7mm,Weight: 360.75 gms
Associations: Said to have been found with Spear-head D.G. 41.
Description: Imperfect specimen. Edge fairly sharp, damaged. Sides beaten up to form rudimentary flanges.
Publications: Cat. Nat. Mus. Scot. 1892, p. 57,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, p. 57,O.G.S. Crawford, Geog. Journ. XL (1912), 313.