Object: Socketed Axe
Classification: Hatched Shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 135 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Kings Co.,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): socket 46.5
Edge (mm): 71.5
Thickness (mm): socket 40
Weight (g): 260
Patina: Shades of brown patina & green metal showing through more or less all over.
Surface: Fairly smooth
Composition: ? Copper
Description: Very massive, with wide expanding blade. Socket is oval and large with heavy overhanging moulding round the rim. Loop unusually large and wide, its expanding bases crossing the entire side, faces flat sharply defined. That without loop is faintly faceted. Some one has filed the patina away above and below the loop. The edge chipped.