Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum,Collection A. D. Pessmore
Site: England,Wiltshire,Swindon,Broad Street,2' deep in clay when new road was being made c. 1908
Parish: Swindon
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1908
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): 46
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 46
Weight (g): 234
Patina: Dull brown, removed in places
Surface: Badly pitted
Other: Weight: 8 1/4 oz. = 233.88 gms
Associations: Edge of one face filed, corner of edge broken off.
Publications: Wilts. Arch. Mag., XXXIV, 311