Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, 1872.31 (6)
Site: England,Leicestershire,Ketton,1972
Parish: Ketton
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SK 9845 0550
Year of discovery: 1972
Length (mm): 121
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 52
Patina: V. dark brown patina; mostly obscured by granular light-green surfaces
Surface: Parts of edge blunted a little by modern interference; one tip broken in antiquity; scratches along edge appear to bite gold - poss. recent, as also one or two patches on body. Light orange-brown soil adhering.
Associations: Hoard
Description: width mouth 37,5mm; width edge 52.3mm; width loop 7.2mm; breadth mouth 34.5mm; depth socket 96mm,Upper mouth moulding with flattish, near level top; second moulding - small bronze rib; body facets with rather rounded angles; crack in top of one blade tip poss. created in edge sharpening; very narrow socket end; v. little of fine casting flash surviving
Publications: McWhrr, 1971-2, 75
Remarks: SN April 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI