Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Limerick, Craggaunowen Museum No. 77,Hunt Collection,Previously Ball Collection No. 92.
Site: Scotland,Dumfries + Galloway,(Wigtownshire),Glenluce
Parish: Glenluce
County: Dumfries And Galloway
Country: Scotland
Grid reference: c. NX 19 57
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 56
Width (mm): 28
Edge (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 21
Surface: Dk. green patina over most; areas of speckled pocking to pale grey-green, and more [?serious] pocking on rev. face; smal patches lumpy green corr. around loop and in socket.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: L 56.0mm; EWe 33.4mm; Wm 27.6mm; Bm 20.8mm; DS 43mm,Typology: single collar with sub-sec.; body angles crisp; faces bowed with tendency on rev. for central ridge - but not apparently crisply defined; loop sec. prob. had a biconical outer face; s. end narrow slit; small rounded lip on inner e. of s.m.,Manufacture: rel. broad cg. fl. remains as low stumps - crest tends to be double facetted from grinding off on different planes either side; hints of flash around inner e. of top of m.? plus poss. jet stump in centre of one long side; faint hmks associated with gentle e. bev.. - diffuse on rev.,Condition: edge all blunt - poss. totally corr. dam.,Attached Material: sandy matrix in socket - prob. soil rather than casting equipment.
Publications: ?Coles 1959-60 PSAS
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink marking: "Glenluce",Archive: Original Sketches File - no further info; PIF,PRBAF: SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN March 80,Source: MV,Old Card: 1