Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City of Portsmouth Museums,(Cumberland House Museum, Southsea),Accession No. 14/50A,Given to the Museum by the finder: Miss E.M. Spyers, 3 Weston Road, Petersfield, Hampshire in 1950,In Southsea Castle
Site: England,Hampshire,Nether Wallop,"Found in 1925, under bracken about 1/2 mile N.W. of Nether Wallop."
Parish: Nether Wallop
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 3072 3759
Year of discovery: 1925
Length (mm): 132
Edge (mm): 35
Weight (g): 212
Patina: Red with grey - green encrustations.
Surface: Rough, pitted.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 211.5 gms
Associations: Probably part of Nether Wallop hoard: 6 pieces in British Museum + 1 in Salisbury. Found with three other damaged axes and one fragment, No's. 14/50B, 226/48A, B, C.
Description: A poor casting with flaws and surface pits. Damaged as shown. Fractured edges markedly patinated as surfaces.
Publications: ?Unpublished,C.N. Moore + E. R. Lewis, Proc. H.F.C. XXVI, 1969, 19
Remarks: Part of a hoard of damaged axes and fragments.