Object: Socketed Axe Head
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum,No. 1934.12.3,Loan from the late Herbert Weld, F.S.A.,Formerly at Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Site: England,Dorset,Winfrith Newburgh,In coombe-bottom below Sleight Buildings (or Randall's Farm) 1 3/4 m. S. of Winfrith. Exact site lost.,1903
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Winfrith Newburgh
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SY 80 82
Year of discovery: 1903
Length (mm): 81
Surface: Patchy, dull green to light brown.
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Other objects from hoard. See Ant. Journ. supra. 1b. Hoard
Description: Looped. Three raised ribs on each face. Socket squarish, with rounded cornders.
Publications: Proceedings Dorset Field Club, XXV, xxxiii,Antiquaries Journal, XV, 449 ff., Pl. LXIX, fig. 17
Remarks: Part of "The Lulworth Hoard",PI, SI, CI, AFI, DF(C)