Object: FLAT AXE
Classification: DIMINUTIVE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dyke, Mr. Andrew, 5 Mellwood Grove, Hemingfield, nr Barnsley, S. Yorkshire S73 0PW,Private,(1993)
Site: England, south yorkshire,scaftworth,barrow hills,found pre-july 1993
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Scaftworth
District: Bassetlaw
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 53.5
Width (mm): butt 10
Edge (mm): 21.2
Thickness (mm): 4
Weight (g): 16.6
Surface: d. green p. survives over most, but badly chipped at all edges/corners with loss of outline; also areas of pocking to dry green sufrace,Attached Material: traces of pinkish brown soil
Other: Top left corner (in box labelled NGR) says “c. SK 672” and on the next line, “ 918” (aligned under the “672”). I included “England” in Site address to be consistent with other cards. Bottom right of card: Rec. “SN Aug 93”; PIF “sketch over”; Source “Sb A”. Written next to diagram: "Sketch 1:1"
Description: Typology: slight dishing of faces with hints of v. low flanges - effectively lost by chipping; no stop bevel; diffuse e. bevels - well curved - where sides intact neatly flattened,Condition: shape of butt and blade edge lost; butt frag. bent over