Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Furniss, Mr. G. - private,Caynton Manor, Caynton, Newport, Shropshire
Site: England,Shropshire,Edgmond,Caynton Manor Farm,Found August 1980 while potato harvesting about (up to?) 10-12 inches deep in Front Field, beside Caynton Manor; object not noticed until the machine (potato-harvester) had been transferred to New House Farm, Chetwynd (DF).
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Edgmond
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 695 215
Year of discovery: 1980
Length (mm): 121
Edge (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 44
Weight (g): 396
Surface: Silky brown p., slightly olive tinted; much of reverse deteriorated a little to matt brown surface - some patches worse with speckle-pocking; p. flaked only at very bl. e. exposing dull and bright green surface; clean part of socket grass green patina, part textured deep bluey green - soil impregnated?
Associations: 8. Single Find
Description: Dimensions: L 120.8mm; We 59.2; Wm 43.5; Bm 46.3; Blp 9.3; DS 98; Wt. 396.4 g,Typology: five fine ribs, outermost emphasising body angles - fade out just before joining lower mouth moulding; bottom ends terminate in pellets; spacing a little irregular; flattened outer edge to upper m-m; socket end a narrow slit; flattened bl. tip not broken as manu.,Manufacture: hmks. on bl. e. form semi-circular diffuse bevel; series of parallel scmks., very fine, almost perp. to e. and patinated - look anc.; v. sl. bl. tip hollows; cg. fl. fairly well removed for most part, leaving flattened ridge, and intermittent crevice; 'pellet' beneath upper m-m on one face only; lower m-m on this face distorted - prob. miscast? rounded cg. fl. stump on inner edge of mouth and rem. of one jet.,Condition: e. prob. largely intact before p. flaking - one significant notch brighter gold colour - mod. dam.,Attached Material: small traces of pale fawn soil and orange (iron-stained) on outside; both on inside alternating with pale green corrosion-impregnated (?) accretion.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: Salop. S & M Record SA 2760; RSO 2/10/80; CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 80,Source: Sb. A,Add: Correction Dec. 80,Sub. Inf. Alan Tyler, 2.10.80