Object: Hammer-Flanged Flat Axe
Classification: Flanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 1505
Site: Ireland (?),No locality recorded
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 161
Width (mm): centre 36; butt 23
Edge (mm): 86
Thickness (mm): 12
Patina: Green patina, dark brown in parts.
Description: Butt thin, broken. Edge well-curved, bevelled, somewhat damaged. Sides beaten up slightly; hammered decoration of transverse lines. Decoration: traces of transverse lines towards butt: 3 transverse bars across and below centre, widely spaced, the uppermost forming a low stop-ridge: vertical chevrons incised between bars; bar chevron under lowest