Object: Flat Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Weybridge Museum,on permanent loan from: Collier, Mr. W. H. - private,135 Petersfield Avenue, Staines.
Site: England, surrey,cobham,oxshitt heath,found close by a tree in the leaf mould, one of several silver birches, by mr. collier around october 1979 (three days before submission to chertsey mus.)
Parish: Cobham
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 139 617
Year of discovery: 1979
Length (mm): 71
Width (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 10
Surface: Remants of a possible stable layer on both faces (less on rev.) - smooth sl. shiny yellow to grass- green - but likely some modern inter.; no. of pocks and pits in faces, and all edges corr. damd. to dry dull green sur. plus some pale green pocks
Associations: Single Find
Description: Dimensions: L 71.3mm; W (max.) 53.3mm; max. T 10.2mm; Tbt 8mm,Typology: no defined bevel survives at supposed edge - possibly never existed; better preserved surface suggest very gentle converse cross-sect. to blade faces; shape sides and butt uncertain,Manufacture: one face marginally flatter in profile than reverse. - not certainly original but possibly suggests blank from open mould with subsequent  working.,Condition: no breaks evident, corr. rounded butt very similar to sides; vert. series of strictions on smoother surfaces - quite regular - poss. modern filing as this sur. undulates in ripples,Attached Materials: areas of dark brown staining - ? secondary c.g. fire, appears on both types of surface,Not treated by finder
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: SI,Ext: CI,Rec.: SN 27 Oct. 79,Source MV,Sub. Inf. : seen when submitted to Chartsey Museum