Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Stainer, Sir A. - Private (no. 1),The Manor, East Famlon, Market Harborough, Leics, LE 16 9SE
Site: Unprovenanced,possibly from the vicinity of Red Castle, Weston-under-Redcastle, Salop.
Parish: Weston-under-Redcastle
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 91
Width (mm): 32
Surface: Dull varied green-brown surface - mainly dry; broken edges + flaking - pale grey-green; intact edge sharp; rest and part of mouth broken - ancient or recent?; craggy material adhering to walls of socket - remnants of core?
Associations: Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: Length: 90.5mm; Width: mouth 31.8mm; loop 9.5mm; Extant breadth mouth: 36; D. Socket 63.5,Central rib one face - off central on other; corners of body tending to rib emphasised; bulge in one side body and absence of much of upper moulding from the casting; socket end prob. v. narrow.
Remarks: PI; DF(C); SN June 78; Submitted Feb 78 (via M & L.A.)