Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Gloucester City Museum, A.3121 (3),Given in 1958 by the late Mrs. E. K. Coulter of Wimbledon, per Lt. Col. W. E. K. Coles,Finder: Mr. Bowles.
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bourton on the Water,Found one mile north of Bourton on the Water, 400 feet South of Slaughter Bridge and east of Fosse Way during ploughing in 1907 in a field called Meeting House Ground; covered by what appears to have been a beehive-shaped stone cist.
Parish: Bourton On The Water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 77
Width (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 34
Other: Length: 76.5mm,Thickness: socket 33.5mm
Associations: A.3121 (1,2,4); A.3121 (5-7) formerly numbered A.3121 (6-8) respectively. An 8th axe in Cheltenham Museum.
Description: Four vertical ribs on each face, with a suggestion of another rib on each side of these, making six ribs in all. The top of the socket has been shaved flat and smooth in recent times.
Publications: Ant. Journ, XII, 283, f; XV, 196; XXI, 150,Trans. B. G. A. S., XXX, 26