Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum 4524.23., presented by H.J. Cunnington 1923.
Site: England, Essex, Rayne, 1843.
Parish: Rayne
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1843
Length (mm): 69
Width (mm): edge 33, socket 30
Thickness (mm): socket 14
Weight (g): 85.49
Patina: thick medium olive green.
Surface: smooth. On blade is an encrustment of bluish green slag.
Associations: One of a bronze founder's hoard of 2 palstaves, 2 winged celts, 9 socketed celts & a gouge. The find originally comprised 18 pieces & included fragments of spearheads.
Description: On reverse is a round depression, marked as if by blows from a tool like a chisel with a blade less than 1/8ins wide.
Publications: Gentleman's Magazine 1844 Vol I p. 299.