Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, B.6.c
Site: England,Leicestershire,(Rutland),Cottesmore,1906
Parish: Cottesmore
County: Rutland
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 90 13
Year of discovery: 1906
Length (mm): 49
Edge (mm): 43
Surface: Dark-reed green patina; areas of brighter green and coppery surface; main break ancient and associated with crushing of socket and punch marks; blade tip broken - ancient, edge blunt through minor fractures - prob. corrosion; scoring across edge recent.
Associations: Hoard
Description: E. length: 48.5mm; Width edge (E) 43mm; E.D. Socket 21.5mm,Some hammer marks observable on blade
Remarks: SN May 78; PI; AFI; CI; SI