Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grinling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolwich, SE 18,1920,Obtained from Joseph Fels, Esq., owner of Basildon Farm
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 76
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 35
Weight (g): 149
Patina: One side medium green patina and on the other light blue.
Surface: Fairly smooth, but thickly encrusted in parts.
Other: Weight: 148.84 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 s. celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of knife, etc. A socketed celt and an equal weight of rough ore now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholm.
Description: Loop  broken right off. Slight traces of light coloured earth.