This socketed bronze axe is one of three bought by Selby in 1894 from an Edinburgh antique dealer called Duff. There was a ready market in late Victorian Scotland for prehistoric artefacts and this example probably came originally from Ireland.
Murray, J 2005 The William McDowall Selby Collection, The Transactions of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History And Antiquarian Society. LXXIX, 147- 172.