Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Varnham, Mr. R - private,21 Tranquil Vale, Blackheath, London SE3,purchased from John Haywood, formerly of a Piccadily Arcade business, about Sept. 79
Site: England,Norfolk,Alleged to be from Norfolk (Varnham - pers. comm.)
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 85
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 117
Surface: Fine shiny olive green patina over much; flaked.removed particularly at butt & e., and towards edges of sides, revealing dull green dry surface; a number of small pocks in same areas mainly with coppery coloured bottoms; 1 or 2 spots of brighter corr. - active?
Description: Dimensions: L 84.8mm; We 46mm; Wst 19.4mm; Wbt 20.3mm; Tbt 0.7mm; Tst 10.5mm; Tebev 9.3mm; Debev 15mm; Hfg 2.6mm; Bfg 14.5mm; L haft 43.5 & 45.0; Wt 117.3 gms,Typology: st. and e. bevels not very crisp lines even where patina surviving - both approx. straight; rounded fg. crests, little flattened at bases; sides almost cert. triple facetted despite patina loss - broad middle facet; butt poss. a little thick orig.,Manufacture: slight skew between body and blade; blade tip hollows; sl. concavity to e. bev. in profile,Condition: minor chips along edge making it jagged - in between stretches fairly sharp, but patina lost; butt very little nicked through deterioration - fg. crests also intermittently; series of recent scmks down septums and on bl. e.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Nov. 79,Source: Sb. A.,Sub. Inf. Varnham