Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum.  1928. 1-20.6  (In possession of Wandsworth. Wimbledon. Epsom Disttrict Gas Co. July 1923)
Site: GREATER LONDON,  Wandsworth,  Gas Works, works of the W.W. + E. D Gas Co, 150 yds south of Thames formerly known as Church Walk + Warple Road, 6 feet from present. 2 feet from original surface., 11 April 1923
Discovery context: building work 
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 25, 74
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 69
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 50.5
Thickness (mm): 16.5
Weight (g): 131.1
Patina: -
Surface: smooth one side, the other slightly encrusted
Other: In a different hand: "Rather inacc.”  C1
Associations: Founder's hoard of 8 Socketed celts, 1 gouge + 8 cakes of metal
Description: Faceted sides.  A few  hammer marks on the side not encrusted (from near middle to the edge)