Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Womack, A.J. - private (1991)
Site: England, norkfolk,keswick
Parish: Keswick
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TG 2119 0452
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 165
Width (mm): 31
Edge (mm): 89
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 546
Surface: Fine dk. green pat. with some small granular corr. and mini-pocking.
Description: Dimensions: Wt 545.5g; L 165.3mm; We 88.8mm; Wst 36mm; Wbt 31mm; Tst 13.5 (middle); Tebev. 8.5mm; D ebev 14.5mm,Typology: no low flanges, but sl. dishing inside body angles of blade due to decoration; sl. concave stop line; very thin butt; both faces decorated with diverging side panels and central flared panel; slight hammer rippling of sides - no formal pattern.,Manufacture: Mainly axial grmks. concentrated on double edge bevel; sl. bl. tip hollows have developed asymmy.; decn hmks. diffuse despite excellent cond.,Condition: cutting edge largely intact and sharp - minor corr. dam. ; a few recent scratch marks - likely from plough.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,Rec.: SN Nov. 91,Source: Sb. A.,Sub. Inf. via Norwich Castle Mus.