Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Weybridge Museum,Presented by Mr. E. H. G. Smith, Teiligga, Stevens Lane, Claygate, Surrey, KT10 0TD
Site: England,Surrey,[Ockham,Ockham Common,Found 18 August 1978 with a metal detector to the South of "Wisley Lake" (Bolder More) on visiting ground amongst largely pine woods; located approx. 8-9 " deep close to an old footpath (a).
Discovery context: metal detector
Parish: Ockham
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 075 581
Year of discovery: 1978
Length (mm): 62
Edge (mm): 41
Weight (g): 93
Surface: Very poor - whole surface dirty pocked dull greens; few lumpy corr. products.
Description: Dimensions: EL 62.3mm; EWe 40.8mm; Bfg. 11.7mm; Bst. 10.5mm; EHfg. 1.5mm; Wt 93.2 gms,Typology: rounded thickening across septum suggestive of original stop-bevel; also evid. for former edge bevel.,Condition: main fracture presumably ancient - sim. corr. to rest of sur.; two faint fgs. irreg., two reverse ones virt. non-existent; edge totally blunt - all corr. damaged.,Attached Material: ochrey-brown soil traces
Publications: a) letter from Mr. Smit 5.3.79 - D.F.(S)
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec. SN Feb. 79,Source: SB.A,Sub. Inf. (via Mrs. Baston, Weybridge Mus.)