Fragment of a Late Bronze Age cast bronze socketed axehead, found by metal detector at Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. Only part of the blade end with parts of both faces and one side survives. The surface is pitted. It has a prominent casting seam.
Socketed axehead fragment
Late Bronze Age, about 1000BC-800BC
Found with a metal detector at Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire in 2000
Fragment of a cast bronze axehead. Only part of the blade end with parts of both faces and one side survives. The surface is pitted, and has the characteristic green patina of ancient objects of bronze - a coating of carbonate of copper formed after long exposure to a moist atmosphere or burial in the earth.
Portable Antiquities Scheme find number HAMP1119.