Object: Looped and Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Maidstone Museum, 54.1957,Mr. Deverson
Site: England,Kent,Sittingbourne,1957,Found in donor's garden
Parish: Sittingbourne
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1957
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 176
Patina: Rough
Surface: Uneven: smooth, pitted, cracked, patinated.
Other: Width: 1 1/4" (31.75mm) across mouth of socket; 7/8" on central portion (22.225mm); Max. 44 cm (1 5/8"),Weight: 6 1/5 oz. = 175.767 gms
Associations: Isolated find.
Description: 2 rib mouldings; top half rounded: bottom hald squared, (ridges on side view). 2 small ridges inside socket. Slight dent on one face.
Publications: To be published in Archaeologia Contiana probably in 1958.
Remarks: Elizabeth Pine.