Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hertford Museum, no. 2
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Little Amwell,Prior's Wood
Parish: Little Amwell
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 353 115
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 95
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 53
Thickness (mm): 39
Weight (g): 224
Surface: Mottled p. - deep green, brown green, gold; pocking and pitting to pale green dusty sur. mainly confined to mouth area.
Composition: Metallurgy - Analyst: Craddock - B.M. drill into top of mouth; Bibliog: Res. Lab. File no. 4065 BBA 417: Composition: Cu 87.0; Pb 1.30; Sn 11.80; Ag 0.25; Fe 0.035; Sb 0.35; Ni 0.025; Au nd; Co nd; As 0.01; Cd nd; Bl 0.003; Zn 0.005
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: L 94.5mm; EWe 53.2; Wm 42.3; Bm 39.3; Blp 10.5; Ds 69; Wt 223.6 gms,Typology: sub. rect. body sec. with bowed faces and rounded angles; socket tapers fairly evenly to rect. end; broad loop constructed a top; pellet on one face between m-ms. - possibly not design but to db with manufacture,Manufacture: much of thin cg. fl. extant; marked hmks on lower bl.; gmks almost perp. to e.; bl. tip hollows,Condition: e. quite blunt - dents at diff. angles - all ancient - deliberate? one bl. tip broken off - anc.; corr. dam. around mouth; some dents on lower blade, esp. those 'burred' series, prob. dam. rather than manuf. - anc.,Attached material: Fawn soil in bl. tip hollows, loop, and socket.
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 78,Source: SB. A,Sub. Inf.: C. Partridge - Herts. Co. Arch. 12.4.78