Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private (1983),Long, Mr. A - 45 Percival Rd., Rugby, Warws. via Northampton Museum
Site: England, northamptonshire,clay coton,gr supplied places it just n. of mu. manor house,found by mr. long with a metal detector in june 1983 about 13" below surface in a pasture field just n. of manor house (rso)
Discovery context: metal detector
Parish: Clay Coton
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SP 595 771
Year of discovery: 1983
Length (mm): 68
Width (mm): 14
Edge (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 123
Surface: V. rough with craggy areas standing up to 1mm proud of rest; these tend to be grass green coloured and undulating with soil in pockets; the lower surface is granular but more even and a dull greeny-brown.
Composition: Metallurgy-Analyst: Res. Lab B8A 892,send results to Northants. Mus.
Description: Dimensions: L 67.5mm; We 43.8mm; Wbt 13mm; max b 10mm; Wt. 122.8 g,Typology: original surface and outline reduced; no sign of e. bevel; body angles now very diffuse.,Manufacture: retains some asymmetry in profile - pres. from single-valve mould,Condition: edge jagged and sharp from corrosion.,Attached Material: fawn soil deposits
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext. RSA 9/8/83; CI,Rec: SN Oct. 83,Source Sb. A,Sub. Inf. W.R.G. Moore, Northampton Mus. 9/8/83