Object: Socketed Axe
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Nash, Mr. R - private,90 Station Road, Lingfield, Surrey
Site: England,Surrey,Titsey,Church Farm,Discovered 23 Nov. 1980 by Mr. Nash, using a metal detector, on hillside covered in scrub and woodland; located 4 1/2" deep, in yellow grey clay below a black topsoil of 2" depth.
Discovery context: farm, metal detector
Parish: Titsey
County: Surrey
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 409 557
Year of discovery: 1980
Length (mm): 41
Width (mm): 29
Thickness (mm): 13
Surface: Small patch milky green thin patina; rest flaked to dry slightly-textured surface of similar colour
Associations: 8a. Single Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 41mm; EW 29; EB 13; EDS 12.5; Wt..,Typology: socket end sharp; diffuse bevel across reverse face.,Manufacture: cg. flash not evident; socket slightly misplaced giving unequal wall thickness,Condition: break similarly corroded surface; body walls distorted by breakage; edge blunt,Attached Material: fawn soil traces
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: SI,Ext.: RSO 5/1/81; CI,Rec.: SN June 81,Source: Sb. A.,Sub. Inf. Mr. K. Peters, 5/1/81