Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 5045/3
Site: England,Lancashire (Furness),Urswick,Little Cow Close, Shelmore Heads,Found as part of a hoard of 6 socketed bronze axes, 13 June, 1902, while quarrying limestone.
Hoard: yes
Parish: Urswick
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1902
Length (mm): 132
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 46
Weight (g): 411
Patina: Olive green
Surface: Fairly smooth, a little pitting.
Other: Length: 5 3/16" = 131.76mm,Width: cutting edge 2 1/2" = 63.5mm,Thickness: 1 13/16" = 46.04mm,Weight: 14 1/2 oz. = 411.07 gms
Associations: Part of a (?) founder's hoard of 6, in an area rich in Bronze and Iron Age sites.
Description: Rib + pellet ornamentation. This celt is unfinished - straight from the mould; the cutting edge is not hammered or sharpened in any way. Worn ornamentation proves from a much used mould.
Publications: Cumb. + West A. + A. Soc. Trans. N.S. III, p. 410 (illus),NS V, p. 183,Barrow Wats Field Club Trans., XVII, p. 211.