Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London Museum, 27.87/2,Bought July 1927
Site: England,Greater London,Wandsworth,Fairfield Street,Site of Wandsworth Gas Works, about 4 feet from surface,11 April 1923
Discovery context: building work 
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1923
Length (mm): 112
Edge (mm): 50
Other: Length; 111.5mm
Associations: 10 socketed axes (British Museum and London Museum 27.87/1-2), socketed gouge (British Museum), socketed chisel (London Museum 27.87/3), 11 metal lumps (British Museum and London Museum A.25760/1-2, A.26299).
Description: 6 parallel grooves on one face, 5 on the other with faint pellet-like effect at end of one of latter. Casting seams incompletely trimmed. Edge of blade damaged.
Publications: Ant. J. III, 343-4 (this axe not mentioned)
Remarks: J.K. Macdonald,OK