Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Mus. Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (No. 7)
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): 141
Width (mm): 22
Weight (g): 390
Surface: dark fir green patina over much of one face and sides; few lumps of light green corr., much pocked to sim. colour dusty sur.
Associations: 7a. Area  Find.
Description: Dimensions: EL 141.2mm; EWst 22.3mm; EBfg 24.5mm; minBst 15mm; Wt. 389.6 gms,Typology: rounded medial ridges on bl. faces; descending from 'U' shaped ridge enclosing shallow depression; stop bump dips markedly from fgs to centre where a furrow produces a further notch; 3 ribs in one sep. - traces of at least 2 in rev. sep.; narrow nearly rounded fg. crests.,Manufacture: broad low flattened stump of cg. fl on fg. sides - almost a facet; ground awaoy on bl. sides to neat double facet; hint of former e. bev close to present bl. e. - undulations in sep. floors - cg. defects?; few dimples on fg. sides; small [?] on inside of one fg. - defect prob.,Condition: all of edge missing - all corroded sur., much pres anc. dam.; all of butt appears broken/corroded, also two reverse fgs much reduced; one abv. fg with notch - light gold colour; gmks in places - mainly recent cleaning,Attached Material: Orangey-fawn soil in odd patches
Remarks: PIF; AFI; DF S; SI; CI; Rec. SN Jan 79; Source Sb. A; Sub. Inf. Zillwood Sept 78