Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 5045/2
Site: England,Lancashire (Furness),Urswick,Little Cow Close, Steelmore Heads,Found as part of a hoard of 6 socketed bronze axes, 13 June 1902, while quarrying limestone.
Hoard: yes
Parish: Urswick
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1902
Length (mm): 121
Edge (mm): 68
Thickness (mm): 43
Weight (g): 340
Patina: Olive green
Surface: Smooth
Other: Length: 4 3/4" = 120.65mm,Width: 2 11/16" (cutting edge) = 68.26mm,Thickness: (max.) 1 11/16" = 42.86mm,Weight: 12 oz. = 340.194 gms
Associations: Part of a (?) founder's hoard of 6, in an area rich in Bronze and Iron Age Sites.
Description: Rib and pellet ornamentation - one pellet on each face surrounded by circle. Edge sharp and showing signs of resharpening under the patina. Ornamentation rather faint - worn mould. This axe is fractured across one face, and then is a hole beside the loop - a casting fault.
Publications: Cumb. + West. A. T. A. Soc. Trans. (illus.) N.S. III, p. 410.,NS V, p. 183 (ils),Barrow Nats. Field Club Trans. XVII, p. 211.