Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Packer, Mr. F. H. - private,109 Violet Avenue, Uxbridge, UB8 3PT
Site: England,Greater London,Harrow LB,Narrow Weald,near Grims Dyke,Found Sept. 1980 by Mr. Packer using a metal detector, about 3 inches deep in gravelly soil under leaf mould; site described as rising ground from a pathway, and located under rhododendron bushes.
Discovery context: metal detector
Parish: Harrow
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 143 928
Year of discovery: 1980
Length (mm): 34
Edge (mm): 40
Weight (g): 57
Surface: Yellow green to grass green patina badly flaking to light green and very pale bluey green dusty surfaces; one blade tip rubbed to expose little coppery brown metal.
Other: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: SI,Ext.: RSO 9/6/81; CI,Rec.: SN June 81,Source: Sb. A.
Associations: 8a. Single Find
Description: Typology: socket end rounded in profile,Manufacture: cg. flash stump,Condition: break not fresh - corroded with ? possible traces of patina; edge blunted by corrosion damage,Attached Material: mid-brown soil deposits.