Wearmouth, socketed axe

HER Number:
58

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Wearmouth, socketed axe

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Cutting Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Axe

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A bronze, three-ribbed, socketed axe, said to be 3.5 inches long, was "found with some others and an odd piece of cast brass at Weremouth near Sunderland by the sea side...," i.e. it was perhaps part of a hoard. It came into the collection of Dr. Christopher Hunter, the Durham antiquary, where it was seen and drawn by William Stukeley in 1725. Though the object is now lost, his note and drawing survive in his Iter Boreale, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Easting:
402

Northing:
578

Grid Reference:
NZ402578

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 58 >> P. Lowther, 1980, Note on an hitherto unpublished bronze socketed axehead, Northern Archaeology, Vol. 1, Part 2, pp. 8-11, and Plate I R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 91 and 93, no. 2