Object: Socketed Axe
Classification: Blade
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Smith, Mr. C - private 91982),Cherry Orchard Farm, Newlands, Coleford
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Newland,Cherry Orchard Farm,Found Feb. 1982 by Mr. C. Smith using a metal detector.
Discovery context: farm, metal detector
Parish: Newland
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SO 55 10
Year of discovery: 1982
Length (mm): 30
Edge (mm): 45
Surface: Extremely poor surface, dry and vesicular with several largish cavities resulting from eruptions of corrosion in past; varied pallid greens; likely traces of mid-green patina on one side.
Associations: Single Find
Description: Dimensions: extant L. 30mm; extant W.e. 45; extant D.s. 13.5; wt.,Typology: socket-end very narrow but not quite 'chisel-edged'; modest expansion of one blade tip survives; indications of hexagonal section even at bottom of body,Manufacture: socket end a little dislocated [?casting] one wall rather thin,Condition: thin wall buckled at break, perhaps with scrapping; cutting edge completely blunt,Attached material: yellowy-brown soil in socket and cavities
Remarks: Archive: PIF; PRBAF: DF(S); SI,Ext.: RSO 23/3/82; CI,Rec.: SN July 82; Source: Sb. A.,Sub. Inf.: Watkins, Glos. Mus.