Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card [for 1951.434]: 'Part of a collection bought by Professor T. McKenny Hughes from Jakob Messikommer of Wetzikon near Zurich and presented to the Sedgwick Museum. All are from the Lake Dwelling at Robenhausen near Zurich.' Katherine Leckie notes that McKenny Hughes and Charles Lyell visited Robenhausen together on 19-20 August 1873 and that 'it seems likely that [1951.434-446] were bought by McKenny Hughes directly from Messikommer while travelling in Switzerland, and were eventually donated to the Sedgwick Museum' (2012, p. 149).
Event Date 8/1873
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1951.436 A-B: 'A: Small stone axe set in an antler sleeve. B: Antler sleeve to hold a stone axe or adze blade. The blade is missing and the socket of the antler is broken'.
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

Context (References)
Leckie, Katherine. (2011). ‘Chapter 4: Storehouses of Ancient Relics’. In Collecting Swiss Lake Dwellings in Britain 1850-1900. Unpublished PhD. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. p. 149-151
Event Date 2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1951.436 A-B: 'A: Small, polished axe set in antler haft. B: Long antler sleeve, hollow at one end to hold an axe.'
Event Date 15/7/2014
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
An unrelated axe, now TEMP.02799, was previously mounted inside of 1951.346 B, likely for display but this was not its original association. It's not known where this axe came from, or when it was added to this sleeve.
Event Date 19/4/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Antler sleeve. Hollowed out, with a mounting hole at one end, and no clear hafting hole or part, with some signs of wear in the centre. A fragment has broken off from the mounting hole.
Event Date 19/4/2024
Author: Esther Laver