Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hertford Museum, no. 1
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Little Amwell,Prior's Wood
Parish: Little Amwell
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 353 115
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 60
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 29
Weight (g): 80
Surface: Mottled dark to deep green to gold patina; few pocks to pale green dusty sur.; v. little flecking gold at edge - poss. recent interference.
Composition: Metallurgy: Analyst: Craddock - BM Res. Lab drilled into top of mouth. Bibliog: Res. Lab File No. 4065 BBA 418: Cu 87.5; Pb 2.00; Sn 9.6; Ag 0.10; Fe 0.01; Sb 0.40; Ni 0.06; Au nd; Co 0.005; As 0.11; Bl 0.005; Zn 0.02; Cd nd
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: L 59.5mm; Wm. 32.3mm; EWe 39.8mm; Bm 28.7; Blp. 6.5; Ds. 43.3; Wt. 80.445 g,Typology: sl. flattened double m-m; top of m flattish but irregular; short internal rib on upper part of either socket face; narrow slit end to socket; rect. section body with rounded corners,Manufacture: stump of cg. fl.; hammer indentations over lower blade; gmks across c.c.; bl. tip hollows,Condition: part of edge more or less intact, sl. indented & blunt; rest chipped - corr. dam. prob.; only little of bl. tip missing (< 1mm); little battering and fracture at mouth - prob. anc. dam.,Attached material: fawn soil in socket.
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 78,Source: Sb. A.,Sub. Ind. C. Partridge, Herts. Co. Arch. 12.9.78