Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Bent,Haft-flanged Axe' in PPS 1959
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,T. Sanders,Westown, Castle Road, Kenilsworth, 1930.
Site: England,Warwickshire,Whitley,(2 miles SE of Coventry),500 yards SW of Roman Catholic Chapel at Whitley Abbey at a depth of 3 ft,1930
Parish: Whitley
County: Warwickshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1930
Length (mm): 149
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 411
Surface: Badly pitted and covered with a thick deposit of iron oxide.
Other: Width: butt 25mm; centre 30mm; edge 64mm,Thickness: centre 16mm,Weight: 14 1/2 oz exact = 411.0681gms
Description: Slight shoulders: thin stop-ridge.
Remarks: The surface soil at the site is stony and sandy and the palstave was found close to the base of it, on Kenper Sandstone. The ground at this spot is low-lying and flat, and there is a stream a short distance away.