Object: Looped socketed axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Christchurch Museum, Hants.
Site: Found at Sixpenny Handley, Dorset,1924. Calkin suggests on Sixpenny Handley Down, but there does not seem to be any substantiation.,There is no evidence that this,forms part of the Sixpenny,Handley Hoard in Dorchester,Museum.
Hoard: yes
Discovery context: downland
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1924
Patina: Blotchy greenish patina.
Publications: Socketed Axe - plain,S.E. type.
Remarks: Card submitted by C.N. Moore,,Assistant Curator, Salisbury,Museum,Feb. 1970.