Object: Flanged Axe
Classification: Decorated
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambgridgeshire,Burwell Fen,Sept. 1840
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1840
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 182
Patina: Dark brown patina and metal showing through slightly.
Surface: Smooth and dull
Other: Width: edge 52mm; butt 22
Description: Flanges and stop ridge indicated. Flanges decorated with a rope-like pattern. A decoration of vertical parallel lines from below the stop to bevel between the flanges.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 7, catalogue lost,Bronzes 78, Numbers to be found in catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology"