Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum,Accn. No. 25.40 (B.22),Donor: Mrs. Eminson for late Dr. T. B. D. Eminson
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Messingham,Found during road widening just inside the Messingham Boundark, on the Messinham/Scotter Road, at the bottom of Beggar Hill.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Messingham
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 81
Edge (mm): 48
Associations: Found with Socketed Axe Accn. no. 25.40 (B.23).
Description: Has a square socket with an interior central ridge on each face. Decoration of 3 slender reeds. Constant dusting in the donor's home has given the patina a high polish.
Publications: H.E. Dudley: "Early Days in N.W. Lincolnshire", p. 106, fig. 33, no. 13.,H. E. Dudley, "History and Antiquities of Scunthorpe and Frodingham District" (1931), p. 21