Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum,Accn. No. 25.40 (B.23),Donor: Mrs. Eminson for late Dr. T. B. F. Eminson
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Messingham,Found during road widening just inside the Messingham Boundary, on the Messingham/Scotter Road, at the bottom of Beggar Hill.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Messingham
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 97
Edge (mm): 47
Patina: Found with socketed axe Accn. no. 25.40 (B.22)
Surface: Constant dusting in the donor's home has given the patina a high polish.
Description: Socket almost round.
Publications: H.E. Dudley, "Early Days in N.W. Lincolnshire", p. 106, fig. 33, no. 14.,H.E. Dudley: "History & Antiquities of Scunthorpe & Frodingham District" (1931), p. 21