Object: Wing-flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 75,  British Museum  11   13,  1,  given by Sir JD Hay Bart  1875,
Site: Dumfries and Galloway, (Wigtons), Near Glenluce
Parish: Glenluce
County: Dumfries And Galloway
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: 1875
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 23   28
Edge (mm): 59.5
Thickness (mm): 12    37
Weight (g): 531.56
Patina: Light brown
Surface: Rough. Pit in face(septum)
Other: The Site description bears the following elaboration- not really room for it in the box: " found in deepening a ditch between Kilfillan and Balcarry in a spot which had been a morass or loch within a foot of each other in 1875 on a farm occupied by Mr Lilper. South of Glenluce
Associations: One of 3 found together
Description: Cast marks. Edge damaged and points turned.  One wing is hacked
Publications: Ayr and Wigton Collections vol  II pp 8 and 9