Record ID: LIN-959B08
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axe hammer, Group XVIII. The axe hammer is egg-shaped in plan and oval in cross-section, tapering to a narrowed and rounded cutting edge. There is an hour-glass shaped hole through the centre. This axe was studied as part of Cummings and Moores research into axe hammers from the East Midlands, and is number --- on the list.
Created on: Thursday 13th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-43C802
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible copper alloy axe or chisel. The object has a pointed oval socket with a slightly expanded lip. The socket has concave sides which flare outwards gradually towards the convex cutting edge. The concave sides have a slight lip to them which disappears once they meet the straight edge. The hollow socket tapers as it goes towards the cutting edge, being solid approximately 17mm before the edge. The cutting edge is very worn and blunt. No decoration is visible. The surface displays localised evidence of active bronze disease, mixed between light brownish deposits of an uncert…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-980F62
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible blade fragment from a Bronze Age flat axe. The blade has a very worn abraded crescentric cutting edge. The sides are slightly concave. The surfaces of the blade have a brown-red patina. The blade is consistently 1mm thick at all points over the surface, which would make it less likely to be from an axe since one would expect it to thicken toward the middle.
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LIN-A579D5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age stone battle axe head. The stone is unfinished. It has been polished, however it has split at the end along what appears to be a natural fault in the stone. The haft hole is only drilled about three quaters of the way through. It therefore seems that the axe was discarded when it split part way through its production.
Created on: Thursday 8th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.