Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Driscoll, Mrs. P. - private collection, 56 Bynuyan Close, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts
Site: Northumberland, Earle, Langleeford, near, found august 1978 on surface of recently graded road, about halfway between Langleeford and Langleeford Hope, by the Driscolls.
Parish: Earle
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. NT 942 214
Year of discovery: 1978
Weight (g): 161.1
Patina: grass green p. over most - little mottled; p. flaked  and much metal lost at edge
Surface: chalky green dusty sur.; patches of flaking around mouth also - light green
Associations: 8. single
Description: EL: 76.7mm; EWe: 47.0; Wm: 44.5; Bm: 38.5; Blp: 9.0; DS: 66.5, Typology: spaced double m-moulding, lower one beaded; tendency for double facet along each body angle leaving v. narrow sides - edges of facets often indistinct; socket sub-rect. with narrow slit end; loop little skew, Manufacture: large stumps of fairly thick cg. fl. remaining - facets along top from removal of crests; sl. dislocation of valves; prom. stump of jet at mouth; sl. rounded off lip around inner edge of mouth; small hmks. down much of faces - tending to be longer and across bl. edge; sl. e. bev.; cavity in upper m-m on rev. side - cg. flaw - another low on rev. bl. face, Condition: Edge all lost through corr., Attached material: traces of yellow-brown soil adhering
Remarks: Rec. SN Feb 79, Sub.Inf.: via Burleigh-Letchworth Mrs., PIF: check, SI: check, CI: check, Source: Sb.A.