Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Destined for: Lewes, Sussex Arch. Soc. Museum
Site: England,Sussex (East),Eastbourne,Bullock Down,Found by E. D. Williams
Parish: Eastbourne
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: TV 580 966
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 38
Weight (g): 53
Surface: Small patches of grass green patina, mainly flaked to very chalky green dry and uneven surface - small area light ruddy brown; corr. products prob. filling s. end.
Description: Dimensions: EL 36.5mm; EWe 38; EDs 4.5 (+?); Wt. 53 g,Manufacture: intact patina on side has no trace of cg. fl. - smooth; almost certainly had bevelled edge - uncertain how well-defined,Condition: break anc. - some crushing of body poss. associated with breaking; edge blunt and little irreg., no certain breaks,Attached Material: yellow-brown soil mainly in socket, incl. frag. of organic fibre - prob. incidental (eg. root)
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN July 79,Source: Sb. A.,Sub.Inf. P. Drewett 19/3/79 - Sx. Arch. Dist.