Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum, 5:53/1
Site: England,Berkshire,Reading,Emmer Green,Found on the site of Emmer Green Primary School near St. Barnabas' Church, 18th May 1951
Parish: Reading
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1951
Patina: Good green patina
Surface: Good
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Found with the portions of two other socketed celts (see 5:53/2 and 5:53/3). Probably part of a founder's hoard. Other materials may have been taken away in mechanically excavated soil.
Description: Casting poor.
Remarks: J. Wymer