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): 82
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 131
Patina: Greyish green patina golden bronze showing a little.
Surface: Smooth. (Light earth adheres inside socket and a little round loop.)
Other: Weight: 131.10 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.