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Description: | 1. Fragment of socketed knife. Rectangular sectioned socket with very slightly concave sides and broken across a hole in either face for hafting. The lower edge of the socket is concave on either face where it joins the pointed oval sectioned blade. The edges of the blade are damaged and the blade is broken transversely. All the breaks are ancient.Total length at least 40mm. Socket length least 22mm, width 27mm, thickness 10mm. Length of blade at least 18mm. Weighing 29.4g.2. Socketed axe head. Sub-rectangular moulded mouth with a thinner but prominent moulding below from which extend five parallel longitudinal ribs ending in pellets on the front and back. Casting scars down each side, with a single side loop. The rectangular sectioned body has almost straight sides, becoming thinner, and flaring slightly for the almost undamaged, only slightly curved cutting edge. The surface is mostly covered with a dark brown patina with orange patches. There are some relatively recent scrape marks.Length 109mm. Width at cutting edge 43mm. Socket (external) 36 x 38mm, (internal) 22 x 26mm. Weighing 235g. Cf. A similar example from Feltwell (Inventoria Archaeologia, GB.35, no.2).3. Incomplete socketed axe head. Rectangular sectioned body with casting scars down either side, flaring for the curved cutting edge. The upper part of the axe is missing, and there is no trace of the mouth or a loop. The break is irregular, the surviving upper part of the axe distorted, squashed inwards on either face and outwards on each side. The breaks are ancient. The cutting edge is corroded but otherwise undamaged. Length (at least) 76mm. Width of cutting edge 52mm. Weighing 152.0g. The surviving part of the axe head is similar to an example from Feltwell (Inventoria Archaeologia, GB.35, no.3). Late Bronze Age, 1150 - 800BC The age and proximity of the objects suggest they may be part of a dispersed hoard.
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