Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/13
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26 (found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 72
Width (mm): edge 38 socket 35
Thickness (mm): socket 33
Weight (g): 152.38
Patina: remains of light green
Surface: encrusted, edge damaged. Cleaned, golden bronze. Green encrustment this side, more on other side - bluish green
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard
Description: Loop partly filled with encrustment, also some in socket, where one rib shows.