Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,Acton Collection, MDCCCXCVII (1897)
Site: England,Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 65
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 17
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 50
Patina: Some light green patina beneath the rough surface.
Surface: Rather rough and heavily encrusted dark green. Traces of gravel outside as well as inside the socket.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: edge 16.5mm; socket 19mm,Thickness: socket 20mm,Weight: 49.6 gms (slt less (1 3/4 oz)
Description: Encrusted in socket is a piece of metal, about half way down, and nearer the mouth of socket is a smaller  piece.