Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Rev. W. K. Coles,Elmhurst, Tillington, Stafford,(1932),Since 1958, in Gloucester Mus.
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bourton-on-the-Water,Slaughter Bridge, S. of,Near Howson's Gravel Pit,Found in ploughing,1907
Parish: Bourton-on-the-water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 45
Edge (mm): 49
Weight (g): 324
Associations: One of a hoard of 8 socketed axes; 4 in Gloucester Museum, "Lower Slaughter"
Description: 5 ribs on faces.,Width: edge 49mm; socket 45 x 42
Publications: B.G.A.S., XXX, 26,G. C. Dunning, Antiq. Journ. XII (1932), 283-4, Fig. 3, 4,; XV, 196; XXi, 150.