Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, 1972.31 (4)
Site: England,Leicestershire,Ketton,1972
Parish: Ketton
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SK 9845 0550
Year of discovery: 1972
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 42
Edge (mm): 52
Patina: Dark green patina; small areas of granular lighter green surface.
Surface: Edge mainly intact, fairly sharp; some scratching at edge possibly recent; light orange-brown soil adhering.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Width mouth: 41.5mm; width edge 52mm; width loop 12.3mm; breadth mouth 40.5mm; depth socket 69.5mm,Single protuberant moulding; two grooves set just inside the corners of either face; area between flattish, but hammer dented; small punchmarks on lower blade aligned along axis; base of casting flash hammer-flattened; some lipping around mouth with one protruberant  runner stump; edge-bevel v. close to edge; flat narrow rectangular socket end.
Publications: McWhirr, 1971-2, 75
Remarks: SN April 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI