Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Moyses Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, F82.
Site: West Suffolk, Lakenheath, Map Ref 52/ 682803, Ploughed up in March 1959
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Lakenheath
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1959
Length (mm): 124
Width (mm): cutting edge 54, socket exterior 34
Thickness (mm): middle 23
Weight (g): 276.41
Patina: light sage greenish brown, in excellent preservation
Surface: excellent
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 9.3/4oz
Associations: none
Description: Socket square section, mid way between socket and cutting edge section is ovoid, devoid of decoration
Remarks: GR Edwardson Curator