Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Municipal Museum, Hull, 120
Site: England,Yorkshire,E. Riding,Everthorpe,Gravel Pit at side of Hull + Barnsley line where High Road crosses it at Everthorpe.,1842
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Everthorpe
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 90
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 41
Weight (g): 184
Patina: Green to bronze.
Other: Weight: 184.275 gms
Associations: One of 12 socketed celt and 2 lumps of bronze (originally 16 implements + 2 lumps).
Description: Perfect condition. Sharp edge, hammered and ground.
Publications: Described and figured with complete hoard (as still remaining) in "The Naturalist", p. 236, 1923, by Mr. J. Sheppard.