Object: Socketed Axe Head
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Newark-on-Trent Municipal Museum., Accession no: 786-1, Presented in 1913 by R. Woolley, Esq,, brother of the Finder, T.C.S. Woolley,, of Collingham, Notts.
Site: Lincolnshire, Potter Hill, Norton Disney, Found c. 1910 in S.W. corner of field bounded by the Fosse Way on the N.W. and by Folly Lane, leading to Norton Disney village, on the W. Nat. Grid Ref. SK. 858604
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Norton Disney
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 95.25
Width (mm): -
Edge (mm): 38.1
Thickness (mm): 31.75
Weight (g): 198
Patina: Dull green patina, pitted to show lighter shade of green below
Surface: pitted surface
Other: Measurements converted from inches to mm and ounces to grams. Width specified as: "at cutting edge."
Associations: Worked flint found in field immediately S. on site of Roman villa.
Description: Socketed ax head with single loop, roughly rectangular at mouth, with quadrangular body, widening to slightly curved cutting edge.  Moulded at mouth with second and third lighter mouldings below.  Marked casting seam on both sides.  Cutting edge damaged
Publications: Unpublished.
Remarks: compiled Sept. 1957.  Signed: F. Waters