Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lancaster Museum, 1931
Site: England,Lancashire,Claughton,(6 m. NE of Lancaster)
Parish: Claughton
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 95
Width (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 32
Patina: Olive green patina, lustrous, much chipped, over bluish and grey-green corrosion.
Surface: Somewhat damaged.
Associations: Another Socketed Axe and Spearhead V.
Description: Part of socket fractured. Loop well preserved, stout. 3 stout ribs fairly widely spaced, the outer extending down to edge as narrow ridges. 2 narrow ribs and ridge of junction on each side. Edge rubbed down to metal, jagged (?recently).