- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze axe head.
- Geographical reference
- England Suffolk Mettingham
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector John Wickham Flower
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Bronze Age
- Date collected
- By 1873
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1892
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal
- Dimensions
- Length x Width x Height: max 163 x 45 x 28 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.67.120 Other numbers: 1123
- Research and responses
Near Bungay [AP 24/08/2006]
Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological(or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]
- Associated publications
- Listed under 'Stray Finds', category 'Palstaves', as number 941 on page 336, and illustrated as a line-drawing in Plate 32, in Catalogue and Plates, Part ii of The Production and Distribution of Metalwork in the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Britain, by M. J. Rowlands (British Archaeological Reports, 31 (ii)), (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1976); photocopy in RDF. For Rowlands' report of analysis carried out on this object, see page 181 of a sub-section entitled 'Metallographic Analyses Carried Out for the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford)' in section 3 'Metallographic Analysis' of Appendix A 'Analysis of the Composition of MBA Bronze Metal-Work' in Discussion, Part i of The Production and Distribution of Metalwork in the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Britain, by M. J. Rowlands (British Archaeological Reports, 31 (i)), (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1976); photocopy in RDF. NB Rowlands uses the previously mistakenly assigned number 1887.1.1123 (see above). [JC 25 7 2008] Published in Allen, I.M., Britton, D., and Coghlan, H.H., 1970, 'Metallurgical Reports on British and Irish Bronze Age Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum', Occasional Papers on Technology 10, Oxford University Press, Oxford. [CMP 09/08/2010]
1892.67.120
Bronze axe head.
1892.67.120
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