Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Smith Institute, Stirling,Cat. No. AK7
Site: Scotland,Border,Hume Hill,Greenlaw,(Berwickshire)
Parish: Greenlaw
County: Border
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 255
Patina: Brown patches on grey - latter corroded more deeply.
Surface: Large patches of corrosion.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 9 oz (approx) = 255.146 gms
Associations: Label: "Hume Hall Greenlaw, 1904"
Description: Socketed Axe - looped with two grooves round top and a ridge down centre of each side. Cutting edge fairly sharp. Butt sub rectangular in section.
Remarks: Tom Scott Collection