Object: Socketed Axe-Like Chisel
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2460,H. Prigg, 1867
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell,Reach Fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 53
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 35
Patina: Dirty brownish.
Surface: Rough
Other: Width: edge 34mm; socket 20mm,Weight: 34.514 gms
Associations: Hoard of about 60 objects: see socketed celt, No. 2451. nos. 2451-2489.
Description: Circular socket. No loop, section elliptical. Crescentic blade.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 133, Fig. 159.