Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, 1972.31 (9)
Site: England,Leicestershire,Ketton,1972
Parish: Ketton
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SK 9845 0550
Year of discovery: 1972
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 46
Edge (mm): 45
Patina: Little dark green-brown patina; most covered by granular light green surface.
Surface: Edge largely intact - quite sharp - some minimal modern interference. Light orange-brown soil adhering.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Length: 107.5mm; width edge 45.3mm; width mouth 45.5mm; width loop 12mm; breadth mouth 43.5mm; depth socket 82mm,Fairly angular upper moulding, slight second one; three ribs little skew and wavy; also ribs emphasising body angles; casting flash seems hammered; v. narrow rectangular socket end; no internal ribs; no evidence for hammered blade edge.
Publications: McWhirr, 1971-2, 75
Remarks: SN April 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI