Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum Hull, 119
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel pit at side of Hull & Barnsley line where High Road Bridge crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 85
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 36
Weight (g): 184
Patina: Green - to bronze.
Surface: Slightly corroded (green blisters on one side).
Other: Weight: 184.3 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celts + 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements and 2 lumps).
Description: Edge expanded by hammering and then ground to a fine sharpness.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist", p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.
Remarks: Original condition and evidently finished ready for trading.