Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Willis Museum, Basingstoke, On loan.
Site: England,Hampshire,Odiham Parish,South West of Isnams Farm,Reputed to have been found by a shephard in 1906.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Odiham
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: O.S. 6" sheet XIX SE
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 105
Edge (mm): 51
Other: Length: 4.15 ins = 105.41mm,Width: 2.0 ins (max) tip to tip of edge = 50.8mm
Description: Five raised lines ending in pellets, on both sides of blade: small pieces missing from right hand tip and centre of reverse cutting edge.
Remarks: Margaret C. Macfarlane, Assistant Curator