Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum, Hull, 122
Site: Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel Pit at side of Hull and Barnsley line where High Road Bridge crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 94
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 227
Patina: Apple green and dull brown.
Surface: Blow hole on one face.
Other: Weight: 226.8 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts and 2 lumps of bronze (?) (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Blade damaged at corner, remainder sharp and has been hammered and ground.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist", p. 236, 1923 by Mr. J. Sheppard.