Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Professor Sir Lucas White-King, CSI, LLD, FSA, late of Roebuck Hall, Co Dublin.,Sold by Auction at Sotheby's 9. 11. 21. Lot 126.
Site: Ireland, Co Down, Newry
Discovery context: auction
County: County Down
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 112.5
Width (mm): middle 32; butt 27
Edge (mm): 59.5
Thickness (mm): middle 12; 11; 13 1/4; butt 6
Patina: thin dark browny green, with bronze showing through.
Surface: smooth
Description: The butt is thick & burred (6mm thickest)