Object: FLAT AXE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lambor, Mr. G.  - private (dealer),  26 Chevil Galleries, 183 kings Road, London SW3
Site: sussex (east), lewes, river ouse east bank
Discovery context: river
Parish: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 418 104
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 72.0
Width (mm): bt 15.8
Edge (mm): 40.3
Thickness (mm): max body 0.6
Weight (g): 7.3
Surface: sl. shiny brown p. with little darker brown mottling; traces of light green corr. deposits along inner angles of flanges; occasional additional bumpy patches brown-green
Other: Other boxes:-,  Circumstances: stated to have been found by a schoolboy shortly before submission, close to the surface in disturbed soil beside bypass on the East  bank of the Ouse and North of the bridge; (the point indicated on Xeroxed map lies on the West bank of the river) [DF],  Mr. Lambor did not respond to request for further information - in particular details of the finder,  Context: 8. Single find,  Metallurgy - Analyst: Craddock Bibliog.: Res. Lab.   File no. 4521,  Composition: Examination - Essentially a pure copper containing c. 0.03% of Arsenic
Description: Dimensions: B fg. 4.0; H fg 1.8; depth e. bevel 7; t e. bev 0.5,  Typology: body wafer thin and consistent in thickness; sharp angles inside flanges with virt. vert. walls & v. sl. convex outer faces,  Manufacture: fg. sides rippled - pres. hmks.; v. sl. angular shoulders in sides at base of fgs. (indicated by arrows on illus.) suggest some if not all of fg. created in forging; faint bev. on either face at butt echoes butt line; bl. e. on one face with faint and slight irreg. double bevel - upper one tending to disappear in centre; hints only of sim. on rev.; scattered isolated hmks. here and higher on body; sl. skew from bl. e. to butt,  Condition: bl. e. thin but not v. sharp - small indents, some prob. anc.; butt v. thin  and undam.; coppery gold flecking along very crests of fgs. and a little of butt & bl. e. - recent rubbing & no significant dam. associated; 'V' shaped depression in rev. of one bl. tip - either flaked surface or caused in manu.;