Object: Socketed Axe
Classification: Cast
Period: Bronze Age
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bristol,Original was dug out of River Avon at Bristol 20 ft. below bank of river when excavating for River Wall at the time Mr. F. Slade was constructing the new locks in 1870.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Bristol
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 127
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 51
Other: Length: 5" = 127mm,Width: cutting edge 2 3/8" = 60.325mm,Thickness: max 2" = 50.8mm
Description: A bronze cast, apparently a good facsimile of the original. Ornamented ribs and small pellets. Cutting edge asymmetrical.
Publications: Barrow Naturalists Field Club Trans. V.15, p. 110 et seq. illus. of original,Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Field Club Trans. Vol. IX
Remarks: Fred Barnes