Record ID: SF-C58259
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axe. Only the blade end and the inner part of the socket survives. The fragment is rectangular in cross-section, tapering towards the blade. The blade edge curves outwards and is damaged in places with a notch to one side. Each side of the fragment flares outwards towards the blade and gently inwards towards the break. A slight casting seam can be seen running longitudinally along the centre of one side, but this has largely worn away on the other side. The break has a rounded, rectangular depression in the centre, which is all that…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-42B8C0
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A reworked Neolithic polished stone reworked axehead. It is roughly oval in shape and plano-convex in cross section. Several areas on both faces feature the original polished surface and this is particularly apparent at the butt end of one face. The outer end appears to have broken away, however, and the remaining portion of the axe has been retouched with large, scaled, invasive flakes to allow it to be reused. The stone is light grey in colour, perhaps some kind of flint, with some patination and patches of high gloss in places. The original polished axe would have been of Neolit…
Created on: Friday 19th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.