Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Guille-Allès Museum, [...], Museum, Jersey.
Site: Channel Islands, Guernsey, Jerbourg, 1933, Discovered by Mr. H. Bracke in digging boiler pits in a field on left side of the main road to Jerbourg. Found a few inches deep in soil.
Country: Channel Islands
Year of discovery: 1933
Description: "Socketed; beaded & looped"; loop recently broken off., from letter of 25, i, 34 to Kendrick from P. Carey (of Grey Lodge, Rohais, Guernsey); -The celt "is almost the dead spit of the one sketches in your Archaeology of C.I.P. 60, fig 5, from Longy Common, Alderney. if one can judge by the section of a clumsier & less well cast type. This sketch (i.e. of the present celt) will be published in the transactions with my Antiquarioan report for the year." The above letter now (jan. 1936) in my file. [...]
Remarks: See letter from J.P. Warren Feb. 16th 1934, Filed by clerk of dept.