Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, B.6.h.
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Cottesmore,1906
Parish: Cottesmore
County: Rutland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 90 13
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 69
Width (mm): 17
Edge (mm): 16
Patina: Dark straw green patina; parts flaked to rough surface esp. at edges
Surface: Edge blunt through corrosion, parts of mouth also lost; crack across reverse of body probably damage.  Some soil in socket bottom
Associations: Hoard
Description: Length: 68.5m,Width: mouth 16.7mm; width edge 15.8mm; breadth mouth 16.7mm; depth socket 50.5mm,Slight single mouth moulding; gouge furrow diverges from point; edge expanded probably from hammering - marks observable on convex face; very slight traces casting flash.
Remarks: SN May 78,PI; AFI; CI; SI