Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Gloucester City Museum, A.3121 (2),Given in 1958 by the late Mrs. E. K. Coulter of Wimbledon, per Lt. Col. W.E.K. Coles.,Finder: Mr. Bowles.
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bourton on the Water,Found one mile north of Bourton on the Water, 400 feet south of Slaughter Bridge and east of Fosse Way during ploughing in 1907 in a field called Meeting House Ground; covered by what appears to have been a beehive-shaped cist of stone.
Parish: Bourton On The Water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 45
Other: Length: 109.5mm
Associations: A.3121 (1,3,4); A.3121 (5-7) formerly numbered A.3121 (6-8) respectively. An 8th axe in Cheltenham Museum.
Description: Cutting edge damaged and bent. Three vertical ribs on each face.
Publications: Ant. Journ, XII, 283, f., XV, 196, XXI, 150,Trans. B.G.A.S., XXX, 26