Object: Socketed Hammer
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2463,H. Prigg
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach,Reach Fen,1867
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 60
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 17
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 65
Patina: Dirty greenish patina
Other: Width: socket 20mm; edge 17mm,Weight: 65.494 gms
Associations: Hoard od Late Bronze Age objects, at least 60, including socketed celts, spearheads, 1 tanged chisel, 3 gouges, 2 punches, knives, etc. Nos. 2451 (cf. for details, socketed celt) - 2489.
Description: Squarish mouth. Signs of 2 small mouldings below collar. Rounded oblong striking face.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, pp. 113, 133,H. Prigg, Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. XXXVI, 56 ft, fig. 5