Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dabkowski,227 Tulecroft Rd, Norbury, Surrey
Site: England,Greater London,Sutton,Beddington Park 2,Found early 1979 by Mr. Dabkowski using a metal-detector in Beddington Park about 15-20 feet to the West of an old teeing-off green; located about 4 1/2 inches deep and next to a Roses lime-bottle said to date to about 1920; submitted at the same time was the foot of a medieval bronze skillet/cooking pot found to the West (c. TQ 2917565165) on a separate occasion also early 1979 apparently in association with china, tin, etc.
Parish: Sutton
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 2922 6518
Year of discovery: 1979
Length (mm): 43
Weight (g): 35
Surface: Grass green p., deteriorating in parts of speckled light green dry surface.
Description: Dimensions: EL 42.5mm; EBm 31; Blp 8.3; Wt. 35.3 g,Typology: double m. moulding, lower one rib-like; body angles fairly crisp; loop sides come to thin rounded ends in cross-section,Manufacture: stump of medium thick cg. flalsh - some ground to rounded profile, some seems hammered to one side a little,Condition: all breaks look anc. - pale green coarse sur. much with soil traces.,Attached Material: traces of mid to light brown soil attached.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN April 80,Source: SB. A.