2nd millennium BC. A bronze flanged axe with rounded butt, deep flanges and mid-stop, pelta-shaped blade with sharpening ledge above the curved edge. Cf. Schmidt, P.K. & Burgess, C.B. The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IX, vol. 7, Munich, 1981, item 740. 378 grams, 12.5cm (5"). Property of a Norfolk collector; previously in the Simon Camm collection; formerly with Bonhams, 13 October 2006, lot 436 [part]; previously in the private collection of the late Trevor Cairns; ex. R.T. Clough, Yorkshire, UK, in the 1960s-early 1970s; accompanied by a copy of a collector's information sheet.