Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Stanier, Sir A. - Private (no. 4),The Manor, East Farndon, Market Harborough, Leics.
Site: Unprovenanced,possibly from the vicinity of the Red Castle, Weston-under-Redcastle, Salop.
Parish: Weston-under-redcastle
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 99
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 50
Patina: Fragments of dark brown patina; much flaked to rough paler brown sur.
Surface: Edge gold - cut sq. in recent times; parts of faces also rubbed to golden brown; traces fawn and orangey matrix adhering.
Associations: Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: Width: m. 38.3mm; Wbl. 49.8; Wlp 10; B.m. 34; D.S. 66.5,Depression in m. - cg. flaw; v. thin s. end; 3 med. short ribs on either face - evenly spaced; rib-emph. body corners; spaced double m-m; tr. cg. fl. - little off centre on reverse side.
Remarks: PI; DF(C); SN June 78; Submitted Feb. 78 (via M&L.A.)