Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, B.6.d
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Cottesmore,1906
Parish: Cottesmore
County: Rutland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 90 13
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 49
Surface: Dark green - brown gold patina; areas flaked to brighter green and coppery surface main break presumably ancient; parts of edge intact and quite sharp, others lost due to flaking; punchmarks on one face prob. ancient.
Associations: Hoard
Description: E. Length: 25.5mm; Width edge 48.5,Hammer marks on faces; blade tip hollows; end of socket-extant
Remarks: SN May 78; PI; AFI; CI; SI