Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,180.96,Purchased by Colchester Corporation, 1896,Trans. Essex Arch. Soc., N.S. VI.173).
Site: England[;}Essex,Southchurch
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 14
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 91
Patina: Remains of medium green patina, bronze and golden bronze showing through.
Surface: Fairly smooth.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: socket 20mm; edge 14mm,Thickness: 10mm edge; 21mm socket,Weight: 91.25 gms
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 62 Pieces, composed of fragments of the following: 24 socketed celts; 6 swords; 4 spearheads; 2 knife sockets; 1 sword chape; 1 Tang of sickle; also 15 lumps of metal; 7 fragments of undecicive shapes, 1 socketed gouge and 1 gouge socket*.
Description: Labelled "Imperfect Casting". Varnished all over. Cast marks show plainly. * Also a gouge socket weighing 24.8 gms.
Publications: Trans. Essex, Arch, Soc. N.S., vi. 173