Object: Winged axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hertford Museum,No. 4
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Little Amwell,Prior's Wood
Parish: Little Amwell
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 353 115
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Edge (mm): 86
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 241
Surface: milky green & black green p.; some pocking to pale green dry sur.
Composition: Metallurgy - Analyst: Craddock B.M.,Bibliog. Res. File no. 4065 BBA 421,Composition: drill into side of body below loop: Cu 78; Pb 13.2; Sn 8.6; Ag 0.06; Fe 0.013; Sb 0.035; Ni 0.02; An nd; Co nd; As 0.02; Cd nd; Bi 0.005; Zn 0.003
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 121.7mm; We 86.2mm; Tbt 4.8 - 5.5mm; Tbl 15.5mm; min T sep 3.5mm; max EH fg. 14.7mm; Blp 5.2; wt 241.08 g,Typology: rounded shallow V bevel at sep. end; diffuse bevel at head of sep.; bev. across sides at bt/wing junction; sep. slots taper quite markedly down length,Manufacture: merest hint of cg. fl. around loop,Condition: butt snapped off - in manuf. or dam?; much of wing ends broken off in ant., but also some modern rubbing; bl. e. blunt but prob. approx. orig. line; all of bevel bl. largely gold coloured + parts of sides - recent filing
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.:SN Oct. 78,Source: Sb. A,Sub. Inf. C. Partridge - Herts Co. Arch. 12.9.78