Object: Looped and Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Judge Bequest,Plymouth City Museum,55.1.2
Site: England,Devon,Plymouth,Mount Batten
Parish: Plymouth
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 45
Weight (g): 117
Surface: Slightly pitted and corroded; spotted slightly with verdigris.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Length: 77.5mm,Width: Cutting edge 45mm; outside of socket 29mmx 24.5mm; Inside of socket 21mm x 16mm
Associations: See previous finds from Mount Batten recorded in report of lecture by R. H. Worth, J. Plymouth Institution, 1928-36. See dagger-blade found in midden with this axe.
Publications: J. Plymouth Institution, vol. XVIII, pp. 147-148
Remarks: Found during excacations by Air Ministry at Mount Batten, by J. J. Judge in "Kitchen Midden."