Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Gloucester City Museum, A.3121 (4),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 behive-shaped stone cist.
Parish: Bourton On The Water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 43
Other: Width: (socket) 45.5mm
Associations: A. 3121 (1-3); A.3121 (5-7) formerly numbered A.3121 (6-8), respectively. An 8th Axe in Cheltenham Museum,
Description: Three vertical ribs on each face; at each side of these, however, at the edges of the axe, is a suggestion of another rib, making five ribs in all. A three-lobed hole in the side across two ribs in the face drawn.
Publications: Ant. Journ. XII, 283, f., XV, 196, XXI, 150.,Trans. B.G.A.S., XXX, 26.