Find Spot record MNN155158 - Unstratified Iron Age axe, Preston Capes

The discovery, by metal detecting, of the first Sompting Type axe from the county.

{1} Very worn cast copper alloy Sompting Type socketed axe dating from the Earliest Iron Age, i.e. c. 800-600BC.

Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Methods of discovery: Metal detector

{2} The discovery, by metal detecting, of the first Sompting Type axe from Northamptonshire fills a gap in knowledge of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition in the county, as both metalwork finds and settlements of this date are few in number. The Sompting type axe is a copper alloy, socketed side-looped axe, distinguished by the presence of elaborate decoration in the form of
pellets-in-circlets linked by ribs, and dated to c 800-600BC.

<1> Portable Antiquities Database, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN102227.

<2> Boughton, D. & Cassidy, J., 2012, An Early Iron Age Sompting Type Axe From Preston Capes, (unchecked) (Article). SNN108364.

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Nov 19 2020 11:48AM