Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: U.6,
Site: England,Lancashire (Furness),Stainton-in-Furness,Stainton Quarries,Found during quarrying operations in 1`894, when ancient settlement - "Stone Close" was being demolished. It was never excavated or even archaeologically examined.
Parish: Stainton-in-furness
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Grid reference: 34/248727
Year of discovery: 1894
Length (mm): 83
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 62
Weight (g): 213
Patina: Olive green.
Surface: Smooth, except where patina is chipped off at cutting edge.
Other: Length: 3 1/4" = 82.55mm,Width: (cutting edge) 2" = 50.8mm,Thickness: 2 7/16" = 61.91mm,Weight: 7 1/2 oz. = 212.61 gms
Associations: Finds of stone celts, [querns?] & were prolific at this site. A palstave - Barrow Museum U.S. - was found with this implement.
Description: Edge sharp, but it has obviously been interfered with since finding (patina destroyed). No ornamentation.
Publications: North Lansdale Mag., 1896, Vol. I, p. 91 (il.),Cumb. [...] A.T.A. Soc. Trans. N.S., XII, p. 281.