Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Liverpool Museum, No. 13.7.06.1,Purchased from D. Bryers, 1906
Site: England,Lancashire,Liverpool (4 m. E of),Knotty Ash,Found in cutting a drain, road excavations at a dept of 3 ft. 6 in.,1906
Discovery context: excavated
Parish: Knotty Ash
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 192
Patina: Green patina, brownish on surface.
Surface: Badly pitted on lower half; polished smoothly over remainder of surface.
Other: Thickness: socket lip 4.5mm
Description: Well worn: one angle of cutting edge broken away; raised bad encircling axe above loop worn down. Junction line of 2 halves of mould clearly indicated. Partly scraped down to bronze below patina on one face. Diameter of socket 33 x 31mm
Publications: C. Carter, North-Western Naturalist, June 1930, p. 91, Pl. 6, I.