Wearmouth, socketed axe

A bronze, three-ribbed, socketed axe, said to be 3.5 inches long, was "found with some others and an odd piece of cast brass at Weremouth near Sunderland by the sea side...," i.e. it was perhaps part of a hoard. It came into the collection of Dr. Christopher Hunter, the Durham antiquary, where it was seen and drawn by William Stukeley in 1725. Though the object is now lost, his note and drawing survive in his Iter Boreale, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford