Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Streeter, Mr. Brian J. S. - private (1981),23 Windmill Road, West Croydon
Site: England,Surrey,Titsey,Botley Hill Farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Titsey
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 393 557
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 55
Weight (g): 50
Surface: Fragments of dull green patina intact - very thin layer, mostly flaked to coarser light green surface; few corners and edges little chipped to pale bluey-green dusty surface.
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 54.5mm; EBm 29; Blp 7; Wt. 44.8 g,Typology: triple m-m, but lower most one on face only; reasonably crisp body angles with only sl. bowed face and side sections; evidently had a slender, virt. parallel body; long asym. rel. to cg. flash,Manufacture: sl. remains of cg. flash; thickness of body wall on face at lower break suggests sl. misplaced core, causing over-thin opposite face? rough bumb 6mm long on socket inside - a casting defect.,Condition: breaks all dirty and pres. ancient; modern scoremark to left of loop; metal relatively thin down break at body angle - ?weak point causing break.,Attached Material: yellow-brown soil traces all over.
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: RSO 31/7/81; CI,Rec.: SN Sept 81,Source: SB. A.