1st millennium BC. A socketted axe with one loop, sub-circular mouth with bulbo collar; sub-rectangular body tapering slightly before expanding to splayed cutting edge. See similar type in Smith, M.A. (ed), The Shoebury Hoard, Suffolk’, Inventaria Archaeologica GB 38, London, British Meum, 1958, no.10; Britton, D. (ed), The Addington Hoard (Surrey), Inventaria Archaeologica GB. 54 (1-2), London, British Meum, 1960, no.21; Schmidt, P. K. and Burgess, C. B., The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abt. IX, Bd 7, Munich, 1981, pp.213-4. 150 grams, 83mm (3 1/4"). UK gallery, acquired in the 2000s. Property of an English gentleman. The axe is a south Eastern Type,parable to the British variants Shoebury found in the Shoebury Hoard, Essex and in the Addington Hoard, Surrey. A very similar samplees from the Beeston Regis Hoard, socketted axe 10. [No Reserve]