Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lincoln Museum, CL 10.79,on loan from Messrs. Cooper Brothers (farmers)
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Owersby,Thornton Carrs
Parish: Owersby
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TF 023 951
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 96
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 53
Surface: Remnants of an olive green patina with underlying blackish and fir green patches - over much of one face - fading out up haft; little elsewhere, which has mainly flaked to dull straw-gold, partly rubbed brighter; few poor pittings associated with patina remnants - pale and bright green.
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: Dimensions: L 96mm; We 52.5+; Wbt 19mm; Bfg 17.5,Typology: rounded bump on one face suggestive of original stop bevel; on reverse similar bump much lower - close to e. bev.; definite slight cross bar ridges on either side - but not level; faint rippling of sides probably dec. rather than damage, as individual hammermarks are perceptible; e. bev.  now diffuse on both faces.,Manufacture: twist down length of body; deep e.bev. concave in profile (marked on one face) associated with prom. blade tip hollows suggests much re-sharpening; flanges also skewed in section - but poss. largely due to reworking?,Condition: edge a little serrated, intact except tips - appear anc. breaks; lightly tooled furrows down lower septum - likely associated with 'cleaning' than anc. feature.
Remarks: Archive: AFI,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Aug 81,Source: MV