Tyne and Wear HER(58): Wearmouth, socketed axe - Details
58
Sunderland
Wearmouth, socketed axe
Monkwearmouth
NZ45NW
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Axe
Prehistoric
Bronze Age
Find
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
402
578
NZ402578
<< 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 P. Lowther, 1980, Note on an hitherto unpublished bronze socketed axehead, Northern Archaeology, Vol. 1, Part 2, pp. 8-11, and Plate I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