Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private collection, [...] Phyllis M. Tilley, Upper Astrop, King's Sutton, Bunbury., Bought from the finder by the Tate, Leonard G. Slade, Esq., Manor Farm, Blenbury, Berks., Drawn by Lily F. Chitty, 22nd Jan. 1941.
Site: England, Berkshire, Hagbourne, West, Hagbourne Hill, Precise site not ascertainable, Found by a shepherd in pitching a fold, 1893, summer of.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Hagbourne
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1893
Length (mm): 81.5
Width (mm): edge 56, socket 43.5 x 38
Weight (g): 283.50
Patina: Lustrous black patina with brown, green & reddish lights. Red-gold metal shows on inner lip.
Surface: smooth; shows oval hammer markings on both faces towards edge.
Composition: Bronze.
Other: weight: 10oz
Associations: None recorded.
Description: A lovely specimen in perfect condition. Very pronounced casting ridges down sides, not central. Socket oblong with rounded angles. Roll moulding below rim flanked by fillets.
Publications: W.H. Richardson exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries, 28th January, 1904; , Proc. Soc. Antiq., XX. 33-35:, British Museum, E.I.A. Guide (1925) p. 88 (ref. above).