Object: unlooped Socketed Axe
Classification: or Chisel?]  (info in brackets struck through in pencil)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hull Museum,       No. 141.
Site: England, Suffolk, Long Melford
Parish: Long Melford
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 86
Width (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 167
Patina: smooth green patina partly rubbed off on one face, showing bronze colour below.
Surface: smooth;  The mouth hammered [illegible] flat: ; this surface scarcely patinated, and ?recent?
Other: Beautiful, highly shaded, 3-part, hand-drawn illustration, including cross section., Notations in different handwriting have been superimposed at the end of the DESCRIPTION and in inserting the word "unlooped" in the TITLE.
Description: Cutting edge wavy & irregular.  On each face are seven slight ribs, formed by parallel shatter grooves, which are of varying length, so that the terminals of the ring run diagonally across the front of the blade; on one side the butt is missing.,  There is no sign of a loop, and the missing part is so small that a loop could hardly have been placed there.  The implement is therefore rather a large socketed chisel than an  axe?, But not necessarily:  See Evans. Arch. Br. Impls. pp . 133-4.
Publications: To be published in Hull Mus. Br. Impl. Cat. (1941?)