Object: Socketed Hammer
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1863 Cat. p. 122, No. 23
Site: England,Oxfordshire,Oxford,Burgesses' Meadow
Parish: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 30
Weight (g): 242
Other: Width: diameter 29.5mm,Weight: 242.19 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of palstaves, a spearhead, etc.
Description: Greenish bronze, with apparently a large percentage of alloy; very 'tinny' appearance, surface badly pitted in places. Socket about half way up.
Publications: Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 179.