Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of London,50.2/1
Site: England,Greater London,River Thames,Putney,Museum register: "From R. Thames at Putney"
Discovery context: river
Parish: Putney
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 24 75
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 137
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 74
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Semi-shiny gold-brown surface; scattered small pocking - concentrated at edge; small parts of crests rubbed to bright gold.
Description: Dimensions: L 137.2mm; We 73.7mm; Wst 29.2mm; Wbt. 19.5mm; Lhaft 62 and 63; Bfg 15.8mm; Hfg 3.5mm; Tst 12.8mm; Tbt 1.5mm (undam part); Tebev. 8.5 and 11.0mm; Debev 16.5 & 28mm,Typology: stop a rounded bump in profile; slightly curved on both faces; defined furrow on one blade face only - on reverse hollowing in this position but no delineated lower bevel; fgs. overlapping along haft end; possible longitud. facets on upper sides - v. faint indications; no bl. tip hollows or butt groove; cross-section of lower body with swollen faces.,Manufacture: v. diffuse hmks. on bl. face - more on reverse showing; deliberate embellishment of lower sides; asym. of cutting edge could have been enhanced/created by reworking of broken tip.,Condition: squared bl. tip with smoothed hammered surface same colour as rest - small crack in it suggests likely re-shaping after breaking e.; score across one flange not modern; edge not sharp and v. little serrated; butt hammered, prob. recent forming partial and v. slight lipping; series of scmks. along body & diag. on sides (rev.) and across c. e. - prob. all from modern cleaning.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF:SI,Ext. CI,Rec. SN Aug. 81,Source: MV