Description

Summary: One of two socketed axeheads found in situ as part of a hoard of axheheads at Manton Weir Farm, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 1999.

Research results

One of two socketed axeheads found in situ as part of a hoard of axheheads 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.