Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Presumed: Sharratt, C. (1982),74 Abraham Street, Blackburn, Lancs.
Site: England, lancashire,thurnham,chapel hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Thurnham
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SD 431 553
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 151
Edge (mm): 68
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 317
Surface: grass green p, much fragmented by pocks + deep pits to pale green + coppery brown; virt. all corners, angles lost
Description: Dimensions: EL 150.5mm; EWe 67.5mm; B side 11.8mm; Tst 11mm; H fg. 0.3mm; Wt. 316.5 gms,Typology: stop bevel largely removed by corr. pits; cutting edge area tot. corroded - no sign of bevel; slight flange lip along two v. short stretches of body angle - rest lost; small areas of ext. sur. on sides retain bevels - almost certainly parts of lozenge facets, discernible on both sides; Decoration: sim. design on both faces badly interrupted by corrosion; 10 rows of vert. pmks on one face, possibly less on reverse; haft faces free except for few pmks inside one flange,Condition: edge and butt totally lost
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN Jan 84,Source: Sb. I/Sb. A.,Sub. Inf.: Adrien Oliver, Lancs. Unit; 25/3/83; Ben Edwards 3/84