Find Spot record 2116/0/1 - Unstratified, Bronze Age Flanged Axehead

Bronze Age flanged bronze axe from Billing in Oakham Museum. A copy of it exists in Northamptonshire Museum.

(1-3) Unstratified Bronze flanged Axe. The exact findspot is uncertain. A copy of the axe is held at Northampton Borough Museum.

{4} This axe was originally in Oakham Grammar School museum; in 1965 the school collection was passed to Rutland County Museum where the axe is now on show. There is no documentation and nothing is known of the circumstances of the find.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP86SW28 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Northampton Museum Records, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<4> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, Oral. Miss V Dyver Rutland County Museum, Oakham (Oral Report). SNN111577.

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Nov 29 2023 1:03PM