Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum,Accn. No. 5.46 (B.65),Donor: Mr. T. G. Robinson
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Keadby,Found during construction of Kedby Bridge, 1915.
Parish: Keadby
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1915
Length (mm): 82
Edge (mm): 43
Associations: Part of Keadby Hoard found in bed of river trent at considerable depth; accounts vary as to size of hoard and depth found. Donor said this was one of ten and found at a depth of 10 feet. (See also Scunthorpe Museum B.21).
Description: Well patinated; square socket, prominent collar; reeds very slender, prominent internal ridges on two faces.
Publications: H.E. Dudley: "Early Days in N.W. Lincolnshire" p. 93, fig. 33, no. 6.