Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1896-1908, Pr. 372,J.C. Clutterbuck Collection,Given by Rear Admiral H. R. Clutterbuck, 1908.
Site: England,Berkshire,Wallingford,In the bed of the Thames a few yards below Wallingford Bridge.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Wallingford
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 49
Edge (mm): 57
Weight (g): 246
Other: Weight: 246.17 gms
Associations: Apparently found with or near two spearheads (Ash. Mus. 1896-1908, Pr. 374 + Pr. 373). One "spear-head" appears to be socketed knife-dagger.
Remarks: It is possible that these three may be part of the Wallingford Hoard (Evans, Anc. Br. Imp.); they resemble to hoard in condition and patina.