Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Foreign
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hull Municipal Museums,* 1 record of the axes as foreign and not really from these British find spots at all. CFCH
Site: 1) England,Surrey [?Greater London],Richmond Park,(so stated on adhesive label on the axes, with this date, Nov. 20, 1906): actually the type is so exotic that this provenance should be regarded with reserve. See letter from CFC Hawkes and T. Sheppard, 22 May 1940, filed in Brit. and Med. Dept. Brit. Mus. + his reply, ibid (24 May): and from these letters 28 and 30 May,2) Thames at Teddington, Similar but length only 3.9",Same collection - same reserve
Discovery context: river
Parish: Richmond
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Associations: None
Publications: To be published in Hull Mus. Bronze Impt Catalogue (1941?)
Remarks: A specialized derivative of the flanged axe of Central Europe which is not Western, Nordic, North-eastern, Hungarian, or Italian. Probably SE European?