Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hertford Museum, 5
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Little Amwell,Prior's Wood
Discovery context: woodland
Parish: Little Amwell
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 353 115
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 56
Edge (mm): 48
Weight (g): 111
Surface: Milky/olive green patina; some pocking to pale green dry sur.
Composition: Metallurgy - Analyst: Craddock - B.M. drill into body from fractured end,Bibiolg: Res. Lab File No. 4065 BBA 419,Composition: Cu 86.5; Pb 1.70; Sn 10.40; !g 0.08; Fe 0.02; Sb 0.25; Ni 0.07; Au nd; Co 0.01; As 0.50; Cd nd; Bi 0,0035; Zn 0.025
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 55.5mm; We 47.7; EDs 22; T socket face walls (at break) 2.0 & 3.2; Wt. 110.755 g,Typology: good crisp body angles; faces near flat; sides sl. bowed; socket end narrow slit; diffuse bevel v. close to c.e.,Manufacture: no extant cg. fl.; gmks across bl.e.,Condition: parts of e. intact, fairly sharp; rest corr. chipped; main break anc.; assoc. with bending of walls and small irreg. pmks.,Attached Materials: fracture, socket and one face covered in fawn material - embedded?
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 78,Source: Sb. A,Sub. Inf. C. Partridge - Herts Co. Arch. 12.9.78