Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester, Dorset Co. Museum (on loan),Loaned by Mr. Clive Greening, son of the farmer of Newhouse Farm.
Site: England,Dorset,Bradpole,Mangerton Lane,Newhouse Farm,"Found at a depth of about 2 feet in the field on the North side of Newhouse Farm, Mangerton Lane, while enlarging or cleaning what appears to have been a stone drain carrying off water presumably from a spring below the 100' contour" (a); ?recent find in 1960
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Bradpole
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SY 484 948
Year of discovery: 1960
Length (mm): 83
Edge (mm): 51
Associations: 8b. Single find
Description: Dimensions: L 3 1/4" = 82.55mm; Wce 2" = 50.8mm,Typology: 3 vert. ribs on both faces; single loop from single moulding.
Publications: a) Fawar 1960, 85
Remarks: PRBAF: SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Nov. 79,Source: R