Object: Socketed Punch
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, B.6.f
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Cottesmore,1906
Parish: Cottesmore
County: Rutland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 90 13
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 18
Surface: Grass green patina; areas flaked to pale green dry surfaces; edge lost through corrosion
Associations: Hoard
Description: Dimensions: Width: mouth 17.7mm; body: 14.2; Breadth mouth; 17.5mm; Breadth edge 4.8mm; depth socket 33mm,Expanded socket lip - flat-topped; circular socket end; solid leaf-shaped, rectangular sectioned body terminating in narrow chisel-like edge; arched bevel at socket/body junction; possible merest traces of casting flashes along broad faces of body.
Remarks: SN May 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI