Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Maidstone Museum, Hoard's no. 12
Site: England,Kent,Rochester,Borstal
Parish: Borstal
District: Rochester
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 73 66
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 75
Weight (g): 232
Composition: Metallurgy-Analyst: Res. Lab (BM) no. 37620 Q
Associations: Supposed Hoard
Description: Dimensions: L 74.7; Wt. 231.9 g,Typology: 2 well-defined lower ribs, below bulbous upper.,Manufacture: Miscast loop - 2 halves just meeting ?after hammering; shape of socket at lower break similar to No. 14 - prob. therefore to cast on to lead core?,Condition: perhaps as many as 5 objects inside: 4 in top may all be socket fragments; sharp 'chisel'-edge protrudes from lower end.
Remarks: Archive: PIF; AFI,PRBAF: SI,Ext. CI,Rec.: SN,Source: Sb. A.