Wallsend, flat bronze axe
Wallsend, flat bronze axe
HER Number
777
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Wallsend, flat bronze axe
Place
Wallsend
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Axe
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
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
432100
Northing
567100
Grid Reference
NZ432100567100
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
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