Object: SOCKETED AXE
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: COLEMAN, Mr. R. - Private,72 Leasway, Wickford, Essex.
Site: ESSEX,BILLERICAY,WICKFORD,72 LEASWAY,found in the garden of 72 Leasway, on a new estate. It fell out of a pile of upcast earth which had dried in the sun. The land was previously meadow.
Discovery context: gardening 
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 7375 9285
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 101.5
Width (mm): Edge 47.8,Mouth 41.5,Depth mouth 41.5,Max Width Loop 10.0,Depth socket 78,Length ribs 24.5-25
Patina: milky-reed green patina; several areas esp. corners, crests and mouth flaking to v. pale green and ruddy brown; numerous scattered small pocks into patina;
Surface: edge blunt through corrosion,many traces of light brown soil adhering
Description: double mouth-moulding fairly widely spaced; lower one in rib form with three prominent vertical ribs descending on either face; ramains of casting flash; small punch marks and hammer ripples in patina; very slight blade tip hollows; no distinct line for edge bevel; rounded 'D' loop section; v. narrow rectangular socket end.
Remarks: SH. March 78,Submitted 8.3.78 by F. Bradshaw, 2 Formosa House, Mile End Rd, London E1 (father-in-law of Mr. Coleman)