Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Somerset County Museum, Taunton
Site: England,Somerset,Old Cleeve,Found at Hayne (?Higher or Lower) close to and on W. side of West Somerset (Mineral) Railway, now disused, about 1/4 mile N. of Leighland, and 1 mile S. of Road Water.
Parish: Old Cleeve
County: Somerset
Country: England
Grid reference: OS 6" SOM. XLVII, S-E
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 83
Edge (mm): 42
Weight (g): 171
Surface: Bronze colour
Other: Length: 82.5mm,Width: edge 41.5mm,Weight: 171.1 gms
Associations: Said to have been found close together with a flat axe and 2 palstaves.
Description: 3 vertical ribs. Much damaged.
Publications: Proc. Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc., LXXVII (1931), 136, 137.