Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Miss. E. K. Coulter,Laughton, The Grange, Wimbledon (1932) now in Gloucester City Museum
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bourton-on-the-Water, 1 m. N of,400 ft. S. of Slaughter Bridge. E. of Fosse Way, near Lower Slaughter, near Gravel pit containing Bronze Age pits (1932), W. Cox. Howson's,Found in ploughing, 1907
Parish: Bourton-on-the-water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: 6" OS Glos. Sheet 29 NW
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 54
Weight (g): 228
Other: Width: edge 53.5mm; socket 35 x 31.5mm
Associations: One of 8 socketed axes found: 4 in Gloucester Museum, "Lower Slaughter"
Description: Plain: body facetted.
Publications: Bristol + Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. XXX, 26,G.C. Dunning, Antiq. Journ, XII (1932), 283-4, Fig, 3, 1,XV, 196,XXI, 150