Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lewes, East Sussex School Museum Service, D,(x21.1965),Purchased from R. T. Clough, Stoneleigh House, Utley, Keighley, Yorks - Aug. 1965, cat. no. 2
Site: Unprovenanced
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 112
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 47
Surface: Dark brown to dull gold smooth sur.; patches of granular textured bright green deposits.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: DImensions: L 112.3mm; We 46.5; Wm 40; Bm 41.7; Blp 8.5; DS 81.5,Typology: body angles quite crisp; socket tapers most of way to narrow crest - poss. flat, or slit soil covered; low ribs on int. s. faces for upper part - one sl. skewed, other vert.,Manufacture: thin to medium cg. fl. stump on upper sides, mainly with flattened top and assoc. hmks. - fully removed lower part, merest indication of line; one jet strong quite prom. but v. rounded off; core misplaced caving v. thin s. wall and miscasting through poor flow - perfs. with rounded edges; series of hmks. evident on reverse bl. e. - creating dispor. square angles; lower m-m little miscast on rev.,Condition: e. mainly intact, little blunted recently - gold,Attached Material: v. chalky fawn soil in s.; small areas of ext. with fawn to brown ?soil embedded (or wax)
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink: X21.1965,Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF(C); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: Sn Oct. 79,Source: MV