Object: Socketed Celt
Classification: Socketed Celt (Part of)
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, No. 40/89,Presented by Rev. Geo. Burmester, Rector of the parish, April 1889.
Site: England,Essex,near Harwich,Little Oakley,Glebe Lands*
Parish: Gt. Chrishall
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 73
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 22
Weight (g): 97
Patina: Lightish green patina (a little chipped)
Surface: Smooth. Traces of light earth inside remains of socket.
Other: Weight: 97.44 gms
Associations: *Found with several others in a large earth bank which separated 2 small fields of the Glebe Lands in Little Oakley - whilst being thrown down to make 2 small fields into one large one several years ago.
Description: Edge is badly chipped and practically all the socket is missing.