Find Spot record MDO6194 - Bronze Age axe head from east of Verwood Station, Verwood

LBA bronze socketed celt. Found c.1936, about 200 yards N. of cross roads. Property of the Revd A R T Bruce of Verwood. [Area Centred at SU08620925]. <1>

LBA Socketed Axe found 1939 in garden of new house. <2>

No further information was obtained during field investigation regarding the site or present whereabouts of this
find(s). The Rev. Bruce is deceased. T1 authority was not consulted. <3>

[SU 08540944] As in T2. <4>

There can be no doubt that Ts 1 & 2 refer to the same axe which is now in the Dorset County Museum. The axe was seen in the Dorset Co. Museum. Description in T1 correct. <5>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1950, Annotated Record Map Rec. 6 (J B Calkin 1950), 18.8.50 (Map). SWX2815.

<2> Rivet, A L F, Annotated record map 6", 21.5.53 (Map). SDO17443.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS F1 GCS 14-MAY-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> DCM, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 Dorset Co Museum (Anon udt.) (Map). SWX2335.

<5> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS F4 GCS 17-JUL-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5.1> Drew, Lt Col C D, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: (Lt Col C D Drew. Curator, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester), 17.7.54 (Verbal communication). SWX2099.

<6> Farrar, R A H (Compiler), 1959, Archaeological Notes and News for 1959: Miscellaneous Discoveries and Accessions; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 109 (Article in serial). SWX1285.

‘A Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age socketed axe-head found near Eastworth Farm, Verwood.
A note by our late Curator, Colonel Drew, on the O.S. 6-in. sheet XVI S.E. in the Museum, records the discovery of a “Late Bronze Age socketed axe found in the garden of a nrew house, 1939”, at about SU 08540946, east of Verwood Station.’

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1960, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1959, 109 (Serial). SDO59.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212924 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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