Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2604
Site: England,Sussex,Worthing,Ham Road,40 Acres Brickfield,4 ft. deep,Feby 1877
Parish: Worthing
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1877
Length (mm): 108
Width (mm): 40
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 293
Associations: 29 palstaves, 12 socketed celts (including this specimen), 1 winged celt, 2 bronze cakes, several lumps of metal, packed in a coarse eathernware vessel (3 fragments in British Museum).
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, pp. 87, 423, 467, Hoard No. 81,O.G.S. Crawford, "Man and His Past", p. 69.