Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, British Museum  65, 4-8, 5, given by H. Christy, Esq. formally in the collection of Mr. Litchfield of Cambridge, sold 7 March 1865 at Sotheby's.  Very probably that owned by Mr. Plowright in 1849
Site: Norfolk, Swaffham, near, Alt. Site: 'Cambridgeshire'
Discovery context: auction
Parish: Swaffham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TF, 81, 08
Year of discovery: NA
Other: Lower right corner: "Rec. SN June 81; DFS, SI, CI; Source: R & BM"
Associations: 7b. Group
Description: Part of a group probably representing an antiquarian collection re-discovered at or near Swaffham in 1849 (DF) previous provance of 'Cambridgeshire' seems to have been pure assumption.
Publications: a) BM additional MS. 23060 F. 207