Object: Socketed Hammer
Classification: Failed Casting
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach,1842
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 193
Patina: Dark brown patina.
Surface: Rough and corroded.
Other: Width: socket 32mm; other end 13.5mm,Thickness: end 15mm
Description: Tapering to a square base which is broken off. Mouth is round. Large hole through to socket.
Publications: Bronzes 3. The numbers can be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology".,Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, 158. 1854,cf. Evans fig 213