Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, 1972.31 (16)
Site: England,Leicester,Ketton,1972
Parish: Ketton
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SK 9845 0550
Year of discovery: 1972
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 58
Patina: Dark green-gold-brown patina; much covered with granular light green surfaces.
Surface: Small part of edge intact and quite sharp, including one tip; central break and other minor buckling - ancient; one blade tip damaged recently; odd small gouging on body, etc - recent. Light orangey-brown soil adhering.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Length 102.5mm; width mouth 41.5mm; width edge 58mm; width loop 13mm; breadth mouth 44.5mm; depth socket 75mm,Fairly angular moulding with v. slight second step moulding below; three vert. ribs, not particularly symmetrical or straight; emphasis of body angles variable; traces casting flash on sides and top and 2 broken off runners; pronounced blade tip hollows; large pits in body corner - flaw; narrow rectangular flat socket end; no internal ribs; hammer ripples on lower blade; grinding marks across and near perpendicular to edge - original?
Publications: McWhirr, 1971-2, 75
Remarks: SN April 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI