Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Salisbury Museum B244
Site: England,North Yorkshire (Yorks WR),Ulleskelf
Parish: Ulleskelf
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Edge (mm): 41
Surface: Dark brown-black; signs of sharpening, undamaged.
Description: Decoration: 7 grooved ribs on mouth moulding, first with vertical strokes across it, the last with chevron strokes passing onto the body. Beneath this, pendant triangles on loop ribs, single median incised line with V-shaped groove running across it. 6 ribs below indented wings separate socket from blade; pendant triangles below this on blade face.
Remarks: MJR