Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Society of Antiquaries Collection, B.55
Site: Unprovenanced,Alt. Site: Cornwall, St. Ives, Lelant, c. SW 53 37,Possibly one of two from the Leland hoard which should be in the Antiquaries Collection (see AFI & DF)
Hoard: yes
Parish: Lelant
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 111
Width (mm): 42
Surface: Varied olive green - dark brown patina; scattered pocking to pale and light green dry surface.
Associations: 9. Unknown
Description: Dimensions: EL 110.5mm; Wm 41.7; Bm 41.7; Blp 4.5 (min.); DS 76.1,Typology: flat mouth top, broad lips around outer edge of m. with uneven underside (with lipping) - stump of cg. fl. prob.; prob. flat rect. end; sub-rect. socket section; flat m-m with ledge under; ribs not sym. or particularly straight - gradually converging.; variable rib emphasised body angles,Manufacture: stump of cg. fl. in parts - well ground down, to form hexagonal body section; pmk between two ribs on one face - prob. flaw; not much evid. for jet stumps,Condition: all e. dam. badly - centre almost certainly anc. - yellow brown soil on break; rest rubbed/broken to dark brown,Attached Material: fawn soil in socket end; other traces in crevices, etc.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink inscr. B55; stuck rect. s/o label - printed '8'.,PIF; DF(C); SI; CI,Rec: SN Feb. 79,Source: MV,Old Card: 1