Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City of Portsmouth Museums.,(Cumberland House Museum, Southsea),Accession No. 226/48C,Given to the Museum by the finder: Miss E. M. Spyers, 3 Weston Road, Petersfield, Hampshire,in 1948,In Southsea Castle
Site: England,Hampshire,Nether Wallop,"Found in 1925, under bracken about 1/2 mil NW of Nether Wallop."
Parish: Nether Wallop
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 3072 3759
Year of discovery: 1925
Length (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 32
Weight (g): 60
Patina: Grey green
Surface: As cast.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 60.3 gms
Associations: Probably part of Nether Wallop hoard: 6 pieces in British Museum and 1 in Salisbury. Found with four damaged axes No's 14/50A & B, 226/48 A & B.
Description: Fragment only as shown. Edges patinated as surfaces.
Publications: ?Unpublished,N. Moore and E. R. Lewis, Proc. H.F.C., XXVI, 1969, 19
Remarks: Part of a hoard of damaged axes and fragments.