Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Nottingham Art Museum, 82-92H,Transferred from Natural History Collections, Nottingham University College
Site: England,Nottinghamshire,Nottingham,Great Freeman Street,1860
Parish: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1860
Length (mm): 90
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 232
Patina: Green
Surface: Yellow bronze.
Other: Weight: 231.5 gms
Associations: A hoard including 12 s. celts, 10 spearheads (or parts), 1 Ferrule, 1 palstave, 1 ring.
Description: Good preservation - portion of socket rim is missing.
Publications: Victoria Counties History, Nottinghamshire, Vol. I