Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City of Portsmouth Museums,(Cumberland House Museum, Southsea),Accession No. 14/50B,Given to the Museum by the finder: Miss E. M. Spyers, 3 Weston Road, Petersfield, Hampshire,in 1950,In Southsea Castle.
Site: England,Hampshire,Nether Wallop,"Found in 1925, under bracken about 1/2 mile N.W. of Nether Wallop."
Parish: Nether Wallop
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 3072 3759
Year of discovery: 1925
Length (mm): 133
Edge (mm): 32
Weight (g): 225
Patina: Grey-green.
Surface: Smooth as cast.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Weight: 225.4 gms
Associations: Probably part of Nether Wallop hoard, 6 pieces in British Museum and 1 in Salisbury. Found with three other damaged axes and one fragment, No's. 14/50B, 226/48 A, B, & C.
Description: Fair casting. Damaged as shown. Fractured edges patinated as surfaces.
Publications: ? Unpublished,C.N. Moore and E. R. Lewis, Proc. H. F. C. XXVI, 1969, 19.
Remarks: Part of a hoard of damaged axes and fragments.