English: Bronze Age copper alloy flat axe. This axe is subrectangular in plan and section. It is severely pock scarred with the higher surfaces being darkish green in colour and the lower surfaces generally light green due to flaking and/or pocking. There are possible tiny patches of the original surface on the haft end. Due to the object’s condition, no punch decoration will have survived so it cannot be said whether the axe originally had such decoration or whether it was plain. The outline of the axe is little reduced except at the blade tips which have suffered the most. The cutting edge is now very rounded, and therefore the condition of the axe when deposited (i.e. worn, unused etc) cannot be commented on. The profile of the axe is swollen due to a stop bevel, which is unusually high on the body of the axe. There may be possible indications of low flanges. It should be noted that this object is crucially a flat axe with a stop bevel as opposed to a flat axe. This would place it in Needham’s terminology as Class 4. The narrowness of the blade supports it being later in the sequence. This would date the axe to the Willerby Wold phase c1900-1700BC. The axe is 73.7mm long, 28.16mm wide at the broad cutting end, 15.86mm wide at the haft end, 10.06mm thick at the stop bevel, 7.58mm thick on the blade and weighs 65.77g. Stuart Needham comments that there is only one secure find of another flat axe from Essex, though they are widely recorded in East Anglia in general.