2011-09-06 16:41:29 Adam Daubney adaubney 2011-10-04 14:47:29 Adam Daubney adaubney LIN-63F291 SOCKETED AXEHEAD A copper alloy socketed axehead dating from the Bronze Age. The axe has a subrectangular socket mouth with a moulded rim and single attachment loop. There appears to be dark, organic material within the socket mouth. A casting seam is visible above the fracture on the axe blade. The axe has fractured obliquely; the two pieces were found by a metal detectorist approximately 1m apart. There are small areas of pitting across the surface containing a powdery green corrosion product. The blade is an unusual shape, having lateral indentations similar to another socketed axehead from the Nettleham hoard (P.J.Davey, Bronze Age Metalwork from Lincolnshire, p.103). The blade is comparable in form to earlier palstave axeheads, and this object may therefore represent a transitional form between the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Colin Burgess described this as metalwork stage XI (Wilburton). The most recent and generally accepted revised chronology by Needham (1996) would place it in his Period 6, 1150-950 cal BC. A copper alloy socketed axehead dating from the Bronze Age. The axe has a subrectangular socket mouth with a moulded rim and single attachment loop. There appears to be dark, organic material within the socket mouth. A casting seam is visible above the fracture on the axe blade. The axe has fract... Copper alloy Cast BRONZE AGE BRONZE AGE Middle BRONZE AGE Late -1150 -950 42.1 80.8 21.1 Complete 2011-09-06 16:41:29 LINCOLNSHIRE EAST LINDSEY ALFORD POINT( ) GPS TF47NW TF4476 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 LIN Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2011 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable.