Description

Summary: 1 Bronze Age socketed axe, one of five scattered axeheads found in the vicinity of a hoard of axeheads at Manton Weir Farm, Manton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 1999. The museum holds a replica of this axehead, with the original held by the landowner until thier death.

Research results

One of five scattered socketed axeheads found in the immediate vicinity of and probably part of a hoard of axeheads found at Manton Weir Farm, Preshute, in 1999. This was the second hoard found in the area. All of the socketed axeheads recovered were poorly cast and belong to the Late Bronze Age Ewart Park metalworking phase, and therefore date to the closing centuries of the British Bronze Age.

This axehead and the circumstances of its discovery are described by Lawson et al. (2011), who also set out the arguements both for and against classing both Manton axehead hoards as a single dispersed group.