Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, 1972.31 (1)
Site: England,Leicestershire,Ketton,1972
Parish: Ketton
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SK 9845 0550
Year of discovery: 1972
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 61
Patina: Dark brown-gold patina; substantial areas obscured by granular and lumpy lighter green surface
Surface: Part of edge good and fairly sharp, part lost through corrosion; few recent scratches at edge. Fawn and light orange-brown soil adhering.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Length: 107.5mm; Width edge 60.5mm; Width mouth 41.5mm; Width loop 11.5mm; Breadth mouth 41mm; Depth socket 80mm,Obverse face with three thick ribs skewed and seperated by furrows; reverse ribs not well defined but prob. similar skew; irregular jet stumps at mouth; remains of fine casting flash; blade tip hollows - marked; few hammermarks on lower blade.
Publications: McWhirr, 1971-2, 75
Remarks: SN April 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI