Object: Flanged Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lincoln Museum., CL 11.79,On loan from Messrs. Cooper Brothers (farmers)
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Owersby,Thornton Carrs
Parish: Owersby
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TF 023 951
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 89
Surface: Remnants of olive green patina extant in one septum, with very little elsewhere - its surface not always preserved smooth; rest speckle-pocked and flaked to dry greeny-gold, with some deep fir green spots; crests, etc. rubbed to brighter gold.
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: L 89+,Typology: stop-rib with ends tending to be little curled back, but rest rising up flange side; no trace of face decoration in extant patina - almost certainly plain; e.bev. a shade concave in profile,Manufacture: slight skew body and blade edge; no blade tip hollows - if anything slight convex,Condition: tips broken - dull gold colour as rest of flaked surface., not obviously modern, same for main break; cutting edge jagged; parts of fg. crests indented - mainly corrosion?
Remarks: Archive: AFI,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext. CI,Rec.: SN Aug. 81,Source: MV