Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2665,H. S. Harland
Site: England,Yorkshire, E.R.,Middleton, near,On the Yorkshire Wolds,On a paper inside is written "Found near Middleton, Yorkshire Wolds in a gravel pit together with 3 or 4 celts and bronze spear-heads."
Parish: Middleton
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1858
Length (mm): 83
Width (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 179
Patina: No patina
Surface: Yellow, worn.
Other: Weight: 178.61 gms
Associations: Small hoard, probably comprising 3 similar socketed celts in Hull Museum and a Class V B Spear-head in Cambridge Antiq. Museum, + possibly 2 socketed celts in British Museum, and possibly 1 in Pitt Rivers Museum, Farnham.
Description: Square mouth. Moulding below collar, with 3 pendant ribs wide apart.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 118,H. found 1858-9, see also Mortimer, 40 years, p. xlviii, note: Arch. LXI 472 (Spear-head Class V B).