Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: R. Grace Esq.,45 The Downs, Herne Bay, Kent,Later to Fleming Collection
Site: England,Kent,Near Canterbury,Sturry
Parish: Canterbury
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Patina: Dark brown with patches of verdigris
Surface: Rather pitted.
Composition: Bronze
Description: Rather roughly cast. Casting ridges down both sides to end of 'waist'. Sharp casting ridges on inside of faces. Cutting-edge much battered in antiquity. Points of edge bent in opposite directions as if attempt made to undo something. Three faint mouldings below socket ridge.
Remarks: Found by a workman on a gravel heal dredged from flood plain of R. Stour.,See new index.