Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City of Portsmouth Museum,(Cumberland House Museum, Southsea),Accession No. 226/48A,Given to the Museum by the finder: Miss E. M. Spyers, 3 Weston Road, Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1948.,In Southsea Castle.
Site: England,Hampshire,Nether Wallop,"Found in 1925, under bracken about 1/2 mile N.W. of Nether Wallop."
Parish: Nether Wallop
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 3072 3759
Year of discovery: 1925
Length (mm): 103
Edge (mm): 32
Weight (g): 238
Patina: Grey-green
Surface: As cast.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 238.1 gms
Associations: Probably part of Nether Wallop hoard - 6 pieces in British Museum, 1 in Salisbury. Found with three other damaged axes and one fragment No's. 14/50A & B, 226/48B & C.
Description: Damaged as shown. Fractured edges patinated as surfaces.
Publications: ?Unpublished,C.N. Moore and E. R. Lewis, Proc. H. F. C., XXVI, 1969, 19.
Remarks: Part of a hoard of damaged axes and fragments.