Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum,Accn. No. 0487 (B.21),Donor: Mrs. Rudkin
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Keadby,Found during construction of Keadby Bridge, 1915.
Parish: Keadby
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1915
Length (mm): 98
Edge (mm): 52
Surface: Strongly patinated.
Associations: During sinking of caissons for the road and rail bridge at Keady a hoard of socketed axes was found in the bed of the river Trent at a considerable depth. The occurence was not reported by the workmen and the accounts since obtained vary greatly in detail. Some axes sold in Crowle public house for 2s.6d, each. This one is labelled "One of hoard of 24". (See also Scunthorpe Museum B.65)
Description: Well cast; the mouth of the socket is round, the collar prominent and the two faces are both ornamented with three reeds. The cutting edge has been expanded by hammering.
Publications: H.E. Dudley: "Early Days in N.W. Lincolnshire" p. 93, fig. 33, no. 5.