Object

Accession No

D 1931.1 H

Description

Socketed Axe with loop. Crescentic blade. Edge of blade damaged. Surface pitted. Horizontal moulding.

Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Chesterton; Milton Road

Period

Later Bronze Age

Source

Winship, A. [depositor and vendor]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

D 1931.1 H

Cultural Affliation

Material

Metal; Copper alloy; Bronze

Local Term

Measurements

50mm x 38mm x 105mm Weight 0.249kg

Events

Context (References)
Ref. Plate 2.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Milton Road, Chesterton Hoard.
Collected by Winship.A around 1927.

Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Loop. Crescentic blade. Edge of blade damaged. Surface pitted. Horizontal moulding.
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
There was a second socketed axe from the same mould which was not deposited with the hoard in 1931.
Event Date 1931
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
This collection purchased in 1951 but not renumbered.
Event Date 1951
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

FM:10355