Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, B.6.g
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Cottesmore,1906
Parish: Cottesmore
County: Rutland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 90 13
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 19
Patina: Green to brown-gold patina
Surface: Little pocking and bad flaking.corrosion at edge and along corners revealing pale green and coppery brown surfaces. Edge totally lost through corrosion; odd recent gougin revealing gold.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Dimensions: Length: 99.5mm; Width: mouth 19.2mm; breadth mouth 19.7mm; depth socket 69mm,Pronounced single m-m with fairly sharp angle; pair of horizontal grooves closely set - probably cast as they do not cross casting flash line; long gouge furrow terminates just below grooves; very slight trace casting flash at top; socket bottom sub-rectangular, few diagonal punchmarks on side - original.
Remarks: SN May 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI