Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Public Museum, Goucester
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Bourton on the Water,400 ft S. of Slaughter Bridge, E. of Fosse Way near lower Slaughter, near gravel pits containing Bronze Age Pits: found while ploughing 1907
Parish: Bourton On The Water
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): 49
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 39
Weight (g): 287
Patina: Greenish brown patina
Surface: Rough with traces of encrustation
Composition: Bronze.
Associations: Hoard of eight socketed celts.
Description: Fairly good condition; edge notched; blade pitted on both sides. Three ridges on each side of socket.
Publications: Ant. Journal, XII, p. 284; fig.,Ant. Journal, XV, 196,Ant. Journal XXI, 150