Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Stanier, Sir A. - Private,(no. 3),The Manor, East Farndon,Market Harborough, Leics, LE16 9SE
Site: Unprovenanced,Possibly from vicinity of the Red Castle, Weston-under-Redcastle, Salop
Parish: Weston-under-redcastle
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 44
Surface: Varied dull greens - black greens, dry surface; pale grey loop stumps and minor fractures at mouth - recent damage?; orange brown matrix on socket walls - core remnants?
Associations: Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: Length: 87.8mm; Width m. 38.4; Wbl 43.5; B. m. 39.8; D.S. 58,Blade edge as cast with slight cg. fl. along it; also survives along most of sides; fine rib on one internal face - uncertain on other; socket end shape uncertain; 3 ribs slightly irregular on both faces; body corners well emphasised - tending to ribs; odd hollows may be cg. flaws.
Remarks: PI; DF(C); submitted Feb. 78 (via M&L.A.),SN June 78