Early Bronze Age, 3rd-2nd millennium BC. A substantial copper flat axe with broad convex cutting edge tapering gently to a rounded butt; the edges slightly raised. See Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, fig. 2, for a very similar example. 448 grams, 14.9cm (5 3/4"). Property of a Kent gentleman; acquired UK market, 2015. The blade of these axes were of simplest form, modelled on the pattern of the stone ones. They can be regarded as the earliest types of bronze axes antecedent to the appearance of either flanges or sockets. They were fixed to solid handles to a depth of 2 inches.