Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,pres. by. J. T. Martin Esq.
Site: England, cambridgeshire,quy
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Stow-cum-quy
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 174
Width (mm): edge 79,butt 25
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 612
Patina: brown patina of various shades
Surface: smooth
Description: Flanges indicated. decorated with rope like pattern. Ornament between the flanges with 5 grooves on the ribs of which are herring bone scratches. Also a groove running parallel with the blade
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 5. Catalogue lost.,Bronzes 81. Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of  Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 114. May 1884.