Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Museum Service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 9)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 151
Surface: Black green patina; [occ?] large pittings - light green dry surface. Few light green lumpy corr.; break at e. finely laminated light green structure - soil embedded
Associations: 7a Area Find
Description: DImensions: EL 150.7mm; EWbt 21.7mm; Bfg 31mm; Bst 15mm; Wt. 413.5 gms,Typology: one bl. face with sl. fgs; sl. central rib and one diverging rib - more hints of 2 ribs on left hand side; rev. face with medial ridge only; sl. bumps for stops; shield hollow enclosed only by rounded bev.; sep. floor dipped in middle; fgs with rounded crests,Manufacture: Much of cg. fl still emphasised ridge/rib - prob some forging of top, but crests parts lost by corr., may have been jagged; cg. fl. stump along bl. and also diffuse e. bev. - esp. on one face -  not sharpening - cast; undulation in sep. floor - defect?; small irreg. ridges of metal across top bev.; on inside of one fg.; and perp. to bl. e. - cg. defects; dimples and 'flow' pattern  on sides,Condition: [?] e. break dusty corr. sur. - anc. break rather than miscast - on rev. face long straight ? scored groove borders break - marks divide between p. and laminated corr. structure; most of butt grey dry surface with embedded soil - anc. break, one corner copper brown; crest of one fg. badly chipped - prob. mainly recent - [?ring] of corr. layers exposed; fgs. otherwise little dam.; strs. prob. all recent,Attached Material: Yellowy-green thin coating matrix in places - soil? fawn soil in a few places.
Remarks: PIF; AFI; DF S; SI; Rec. SN Jan 79; Source Sb A; Sub. Inf. Zillwood Sept 78