Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ketton Portland Cement Co., Ltd. - Private,Ketton, Stamford, Lincs. PE9 3SX,[1972.31(3)]
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Ketton,1972
Parish: Ketton
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Grid reference: SK 9845 0550
Year of discovery: 1972
Length (mm): 113
Width (mm): 44
Edge (mm): 56
Surface: Milky green patina; alot of granular lighter green surface. Edge intact.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Width mouth 44mm; width edge 55.5mm; width loop 12.5mm; breadth mouth 46.5mm; depth socket 84mm,Three evenly spaced ribs descending from similar horiz. rib; rib emphasised body angles; hammer marks at blade edge; blade tip hollows.
Publications: McWhirr, 1971-2, 75
Remarks: SN April 78; PI; AFI; CI; SI