Late Bronze Age, 1st millennium BC. A cast socketted axe with convex cutting edge; the plain socket with collars at rim and an integral side loop for attachment. Cf. Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, figs 116-117, for a very similar example. 307 grams, 92mm (3 1/2"). Property of a Kent gentleman; acquired UK market, 2015. The specimen seems characteristic of the North-West Europe bronze socketted Celtic axes of this character, plain with the exception of a single double beading at the top.They were produced in various sizes and have been found in considerable number in England as well: Westwick Row(Herts), Burwell Fen (Cambridge) and Bottisham(Cambridge").