Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Miss. E. K. Coulter,Laughton, The Grange, Wimbledon,Now in Gloucester Museum, since 1958
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bourton-on-the-Water,Slaughter Bridge, S. of,E. of Fosse Way,Near gravel pit containing Bronze Age pits (1932),Found in ploughing,1907
Parish: Bourton-on-the-water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 48
Edge (mm): 60
Weight (g): 490
Associations: One of a hoard of 8 socketed axes.
Description: 3 ribs on face.,Width: edge 60mm; socket 48 x 46
Publications: Tr. Bristol and Glos. A. S. XXX, 26.,G. C. Dunning, Antiq. Journ. XII, 283-4, Fig. 3, 2,XV, 196,XXI, 150