Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grenling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Wodwich SE. 18,1920,Obtained from Mr. Joseph Fels the 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): 63
Width (mm): 15
Edge (mm): 14
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 35
Patina: Medium green patina, golden bronze just visible.
Surface: Polished. Heavily encrusted and a little corroded near edge.
Other: Width: edge 14mm; socket 14.5mm,Thickness: socket 14.5mm,Weight: 35.43 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of 9 s. celts, a spearhead, 2 gouges, portion of a 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.