Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lewes, East Sussex Schools Museum Service - C,Source unknown
Site: Unprovenanced
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 91
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 47
Surface: Patches of dark green smooth sur. - prob. residual p. which has been filed; otherwise gold to dark brown with spurts of v. red brown.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: L 91mm; We 46.9; Wm 38.2; Bm 38.2; Blp 11.2; DS 68,Typology: socket tapers most of the way to a slit end; body angles little rounded and faces sl. convex,Manufacture: cg. fl. well rounded medium broad ridge, or step, on sides; little stump left on loop and lower sides; int. lpg. on m. above faces prob. assoc. with jet stumps - but these fully removed; projection (anomalous) below loop; approx. circ. hole under lp. through body - cg. flaw, rounded edges; bev. at e. quite steep but no distinct line surviving; expansion of bl. tips - no hollows but skewed flat surfaces here - same skew on either side,Condition: bl. e. mainly rounded - bright gold along e. attests modern interf.; furrow across sides and body angles almost certainly assoc. with modern 'cleaning'.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: circ. stuck on label: C,Archive PIF,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source MV