Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Technical Schools, Municipal Offices, Bath.
Site: England,Somerset,Newton St. Loe,in a Quarry Field,1870
Parish: Newton St. Loe
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 20
Thickness (mm): 3
Patina: Shiny olive patina
Surface: Some pock marks
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: socket 23mm; widest part blade 20mm; middle 17mm,Thickness: about 3mm
Associations: Found with some (headless, pointless, and bent) of quadrangular section. A Roman villa was found not far away from Quarry Field whilst G. W. Rly. was being built.
Description: In good preservation
Publications: Proc. of the Bath Nat. Hist. and Anti. Field Club, Vol. X, 1905, pp. 312, 4, 316