Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City of Portsmouth Museums,(Cumberland House Museum, Southsea),Accessions No. 226/48B,Given to the Museum by the finder: Miss W. M. Spyers, 3 Weston Road, Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1948.,In Southsea Castle
Site: England,Wiltshire (?Hampshire),Nether Wallop,"Found in 1925, under bracken about 1/2 mile N.W. of Nether Wallop".
Parish: Nether Wallop
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 3072 3759
Year of discovery: 1925
Length (mm): 106
Edge (mm): 34
Weight (g): 197
Patina: Grey-green
Surface: As cast.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 197.2 gms
Associations: Probably part of Nether Wallop hoard; 6 pieces in British Museum and 1 in Salisbury. Found with three other damaged axes and one fragment, No's. 14/50A & B, 226/48 A & C.
Description: Damaged as shown. Fractured edges patinated as surfaces. Blade has been sharpened from one side.
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Unpublished,C.N. Moore and E. R. Lewis, Proc.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.