Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Gloucester City Museum, A.3121 (1),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): 110
Width (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 31
Associations: A. 3121 (2-4); A.3121 (5-7) formerly numbered A.3121 (6-8) respectively. An 8th axe in Cheltenham Museum.
Publications: Ant. Journ., XII, 283, f.; XV, 196; XXI, 150,Trans. B. G. A. S., XXX, 26.