Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,  1903-6-23      11-15, 17, 18, 20-22.,  Purchased from Messrs. Rottin & Fenardent,  6 Bloomsbury Street, W.C.,  1903
Site: GREATER LONDON, Tower Hamlets,  Bromley-by-Bow, Found at depth of 4'.6", between Devon's Road O& Brickfield Road, 1901
Parish: Bromley By Bow
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 35  82   [notation in  pencil]
Year of discovery: 1901
Weight (g): 11.  101 gm; 12.  95 gm;  13. 84 gm;  14.  44 gm;  15. 282 gm; 17.  96 gm; 18.  120 gm;  20.  86 gm;  21.  106 gm;  22.  80 gm
Other: First 3 lines of SITE info have been written over a white-out sticker, in a different handwriting., No illustration.,  ,
Associations: Howard of 9 socketed axes, 12 fragments, 1 rectangular implement, 1 spear-head, 1 base of sword-blade, 1 socket of knife & 18 copper cakes.
Description: Although this information appears below WIDITH, it appears to belong properly here:,  11   upper part with loop.,  12  upper part with loop & broken mouth.,  13  half with loop.,  14  fragment,  15  lower part,  17  lower part, with very thin edge,  18  lower part, heavy & battered,  20  lower part with straight edge,  21  lower part, very thick,  22  middle part,  ,
Publications: Proc. Soc. Antiq. sec. ii.  XIX, 14.
Remarks: The notation in pencil "C1" appears in the extreme, right lower corner.