Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,1903-6-23    3,Purchased from Messr's Rollin & Fenardent, 7 Bloomsbury Street, W.C.,1903
Site: GREATER LONDON, Tower Hamlets, Bromley-by-Bow,Found at depth of 4'-6', between Devon's Road and Brickfield Road,1901
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Bromley By Bow
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 35,82
Year of discovery: 1901
Length (mm): 98
Width (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 43
Weight (g): 232
Patina: copper green patina.
Associations: Hoard of 9 socketed axes, 12 fragments, 1 rectangular implement, 1 spear-head, 1 base of sword-blade, 1 socket of knife & 18 copper cakes, 1 mace.
Description: with cutting edge beaten out and pl[...] moulding than the rest (2).
Publications: Proc. Soc. Antiq. ser. iii, XIX, 14