Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum, 5:53/2
Site: England,Berkshire,Reading,Emmer Green,Found on the site of Emmer Green Primary School near St. Barnabas' Church, 18th May 1951.
Parish: Emmer Green
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1951
Patina: Fine green patina.
Surface: Good
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Found with the portion of another axe and a complete one (see 5:53/1 and 5:53/3). Probably part of a founder's hoard. Other material may have been taken away in mechanically excavated spoil.
Description: Blade end only of axe. It shows marks of a file.
Remarks: J. Wymer