Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Unknown, sold by: Seaby Coins & Medals,Audley House, 11 Margaret Street, W1N 8AT
Site: Unprovenanced,unknown, most likely a recent find
Discovery context: auction
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 87
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 48
Surface: Much a fine dk. brown patina, semi-shiny, seems to underlie accretion but on one face here changes to wider more orange brown; pale green sandy corrosion product covering much of socket walls, with little on side around loop.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: DImensions: L 86.5mm; We 47.8; Wm 39.8; Bm 36.6; Blp 10.9; DS 63.5,Typology: sl. ribs defining body angles - virt. none-existant on rev. face; lower m-m rib-like; diffuse e. bev. with suggestion of hmks. on face below, but concealed by accretion,Manufacture: stumps of 2 jets above faces; narrow to median stump of cg. flash - rounded off; small projection from cg. flash at base of loop has rounded end - not broken surface,Condition: c.e. undamaged and fairly sharp; tips appear undamaged,Attached Material: Accretion of sand and fine gravel embedded into lower faces and sides - mainly iron-stained.
Remarks: PIF; DF(C) (Photo.); CI,Rec.: SN April 81,Source: SB A,Sub. Inf. via P. Clayton, 19/3/81