Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scottish Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh,No. DE 65,Purchased 1901.
Site: Scotland,Roxburghshire,Melrose
Parish: Melrose
County: Border
Country: Scotland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 95
Width (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 31
Weight (g): 164
Patina: No patina.
Other: Length: 94.8mm,Width: edge 52.4mm; socket 36.5mm,Thickness: socket 31.1mm,Weight: 163.9 gms
Description: One side of socket uneven, due to faulty casting. Blade sufficiently sharp to cut wood: 2 small notches in edge.
Publications: ?PSAS XXXVI, 67.