Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hinchcliffe, Mr. M.L. - private (1981),73 Minterne Way, Hayes, Middlesex.,Previously belonged to the grandfather of a friend which family had hired in Uxbridge for a long time.
Site: Unprovenanced
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 115
Width (mm): 47
Edge (mm): 58
Weight (g): 312
Surface: Remnants of dark brown p.. giving way in patches to dull gold smooth surface.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: L115mm; We 57.5mm; Wm 47; Bm 44.8; Blp 9; DS 95; Wt. 311.9 g,Typology: rounded corners to socket, and very narrow end; second moulding at mouth is a very slight step from which spring ribs; ribs seem to terminate in pellets-not all well-defined; those of body angles well emphasised (i.e. ribbed),Manufacture: cg. flashes neat and thin with rounded crests - extant for most of sides; hole high in wall may be flaw; pronounced blade tip hollows, assoc. with well curved edge bevel and surviving hmks - both blade tips have suffered more hammering from one face (left-hand) than other skewing the hollow; actual tips subsequently flattened,Condition: edge intermittently blunted - at least one notch recent (gold); slight dishing above edge bevel on either face associated with clusters of fissures and likely to be damage,Attached Material: few pale soily deposits with green corrosion/staining
Remarks: PIF; SI; CI,Receipt no. 95 7/4/81,Rec.: SN Sept. 81; Sb. A.