Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pain, Mr. Robert - private (1981),10 Willow Rise, Witham, Essex
Site: England,Essex,Witham,Rickstones Road,Found about July 1979 on the surface of a mud-path next to field, just off Rickstones Road, it was spotted by Master Robert Pain among stones with rusty nails and other objects nearby.
Parish: Grays
County: Essex
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 819 166
Year of discovery: 1979
Length (mm): 69
Edge (mm): 48
Weight (g): 81
Surface: Surface scores across body face - some biting golden metal; olive green patina - much broken by pocking and some lumpy corrosion; also some tiny vivid blue patches - not corrosive.
Associations: 8a, Single Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 68.5mm; EW 47.8; EDs 49; Wt. 80.7 g,Typology: Rounded body angles except close to tips; section poss. little distorted; socket prob. chisel ended under soil,Manufacture: blade edge concave in profile from forging - but despite wide expansion no signt. blade tip hollows, some mouldings inside socket from core surface.,Condition: Battered cutting edge; bl. tip prob. anc. break - but recent ribbing causing bright gold corners; similar pattern for all remaining breaks, but all look anc.,Attached Material: Pale fawn soil in socket
Remarks: Archive: PIF; PRBAF: DF(S), SI; Ext: CI,Rec.: SN Sept. 81; Source: Sb.A.