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Description: | An incomplete Late Bronze Age socketed axehead dating to the period c. 1100 - 800 BC. The axehead is trapezoidal in shape and has a narrowed, triangular profile. It exhibits an old break just above the socket aperture. The remains of the socket are sub-rectangular in shape. The cutting edge is straight and unexpanded. It exhibits a number of chips and old breaks, probably attributable to plough damage. There is no decoration visible on the surface.Matt Knight has examined the object and commented: "Overall the object is undiagnostic of a specific type making parallels for this object difficult to identify. A comparable fragment is shape and form was found at Clyst Honiton, Devon, and is currently held at the Royal Alert Memorial Museum (acc.no. 34/2012). This fragment has similarly broken just above the socket aperture. Pearce (1983) lists several plain socketed axes demonstrating similar cutting edge shape. Judging by her drawings, this axe fragment may have been part of a socketed axe similar to those found at Viaduct Farm, Higher Roseworthy, Cornwall (Pearce 1983, 408, No.60, Pl.5). Another comparable example might be the plain socketed axe in the Wick Park, Stogursey, hoard, Somerset (McNeil 1973, Fig.3 (21)). Both of these are Late Bronze Age hoards."The axehead measures 59.11mm in length, 43.05mm maximum width, 39.84mm minimum width, 12.72mm maximum thickness, 3.97mm minimum thickness and weighs 84.08g. The remaining part of the socket is 25.54mm deep.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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