Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, B.6.b
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Cottesmore,1906
Parish: Cottesmore
County: Rutland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 90 13
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 95
Edge (mm): 42
Surface: Dull dark-green patina; areas flaked to light green or reddy surface; part of edge prob. broken in antiquity, part poss. lost through corrosion.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Width edge: 41.8; Width mouth: 32.5; Width loop 5.6; Depth socket 60.5; Breadth mouth 31.5,V. slight second ledge moulding; body very rounded corners - no definite facets; casting flashes not fully removed, nor stumps of jets; slight hammer ripples on lower blade.
Remarks: SN May 78; PI; AFI; CI; SI