Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, British Museum,P1980, 3-2.1,Presented Feb. 1980 by Mr. L.W. Carpenter, 47 Strathmore Drive, [Venuced?], Wimborne, Dorset
Site: England, surrey,walton-on-the-hill,walton heath
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Walton-on-the-hill
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 224 540
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 163
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 102
Thickness (mm): 11
Surface: Whole laquered over a fine deep/grass/milky green p. largely intact, but severely flaked at butt & edge in particular, revealing dry pale green sur.
Associations: 7c. Miscellaneous
Description: Dimentions: L 162.7mm; EWe 102.4mm; EWbt 38.8mm; max T 11.4mm; Wt. 536.9 gms,Typology: cross-section of sides strongly convex - hints of rippling, but no regular facet shaping; v. slight bowing to faces in cross section, except towards edges which are minimally raised - incidental? stop bevel concave - not quite even and symmetrical - in profile v. sl. emphasised ridge; maxT. occurs at stop and again a little above it; some hammer-rippling on face; good. e. bev.  where p. intact; v. sl. thinning at butt, just perceptible, but no defined bevel; indications that butt p. a little expanded.,Condition: numerous scmks across faces - mainly superficial but one or two deeper, most modern almost certainly - plough damage etc.; no evidence for ancient edge damage but whole lost with p. flaking.,Attached Material: restricted spots of gold-fawn colour under lacquer - soil traces evidently
Publications: a) Carpenter, 1971
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink inscription: "Walton Heath, Sy. 31/1/60",Archive: PIF, AFI,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Jan 81,Source: BM