Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum, S257:45,Smith Collection
Site: England,Berkshire,Wargrave,Found when digging a trench for a boat house on the Thames Bank at Wargrave in 1937.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Wargrave
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1937
Patina: Dark green
Surface: Good, except for small patches of corrosion and limey concretions.
Composition: Bronze
Description: Facetted and ribbed type with a circular socket.