Wallsend, flat bronze axe

HER Number:
777

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, flat bronze axe

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Cutting Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Axe

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A flat bronze axe is reported to have been found in Wallsend, but there is no information about the date of discovery or findspot. It was formerly in the Greenwell Collection, and is now in the British Museum. It is described as 135 mm long, thin-butted, and with a cutting edge 80 mm wide. The butt is damaged, the edges battered and surface pitted.

Easting:
321

Northing:
671

Grid Reference:
NZ321671

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 777 >> J. Evans, 1881, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, p. 43 M.H. Dodds, 1930, Prehistoric Period, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 17 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 78-9, fig. 25, no. 7