Object: Socketed Axe
Classification: Ribbed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum, 1953, given by […] Finder,, Me. R.W. Waliever,, 19. Boutlon,, near […] heemlock.
Site: England, Shropshire 6” 0.S. [0.5.?] LXXII S.E., Lat. 52°24’49”; Long. 2°33’54”:, Silvington (N.E. of Tilterstone Clee) 1” O.S. Pop. (1947) 129:/614 796., Upper House Farm ([…] W. Millichamp), The Linleys Field (grass), at a depth of 3 ft in clay, in excavating for land drains,, by Mr. R.S. Walever, Boutlon,, 1st May, 1953.
Discovery context: farm
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 44 x 39
Edge (mm): 51
Weight (g): 311.8
Patina: olive-brown, moderately lustrous, considerably damaged
Surface: 1/2 of one face and side scraped down to greenish-powder blue encrustation over metal
Other: Width Specified as: "socket 44 x 39 mm.",  Weight converted from 11 oz to 311.8 gr.
Associations: None.  Another similar axe is said to have been found on Silvington Manor Farm, adjacent, which was thrown away.
Description: Hollow to 77 mm.  Squarish with angles rounded. Three long narrow ribs on faces, Unevenly spaced. Edge very low curve.  Shallow splayed collar like Welsh type of socketed axe but proportions are longer.
Publications: L.F.C. S.A.T. to be published
Remarks: Site in Valley N.g Kerry-Clun-Clee-Severon Ridgeway. 1st socketed axe of Welch type locally + first socketed axe known from hills between Severn + […]