Late Bronze Age, 1st millennium BC. A socketted axe with convex cutting edge; the near square socket with linear ornament of five ribs running both sides and lip to socket mouth, with an integral side loop for attachment. See Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, figs.124-125 and especially 129, for similar examples. 300 grams, 10.9cm (4 1/4"). Property of a Kent gentleman; acquired UK market, 2015. Specimens with five ribs are rare, with a one known English example from a hoard in Martlesham, Suffolk. Axe heads closely resembling our axe head can also be seen in France, in the Museums of Narbonne and Nantes.