Accession No

1931.354


Description

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


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Chesterton; Green End Road


Period

Late Bronze Age


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1931.354


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper alloy; Bronze


Local Term


Measurements

45mm x 35mm x 91mm Weight 0.178kg


Events

Context (References)
Ref. Plate 462.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Field collection)
Green End Road, Chesterton Hoard.
Found on Green End Road, during gravel-digging in a pit belonging to F. and P. Brown in ?1929, ?1930.

Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Amendments / updates)
Lethbridge and O'Reilly (see Contexts) note the hoard 'has been acquired for the Museum chiefly through the energies of Mr Oliver Rottman and Mr C.S. Leaf to whom the Museum is much indebted; it was purchased with part of the C.A.S. grant.'. It does not say in what capacity Rottman and Leaf aided the CAS and the Museum in the acquisition of the hoard.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


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


Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. and O'Reilly, M.M. (1932). 'Archaeological Notes'. In Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. XXXII. p. 59-61. pl. I.
Event Date 1932
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (References)
Clark, Grahame. (1941). Prehistoric England. B.T. Batsford LTD: London. pp. 63-64. pl. 58.
Event Date 1941
Author: Imogen Gunn


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