Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb. 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England,Sussex,Yapton (Parish),Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 54
Weight (g): 116
Patina: Pale green
Surface: Smooth
Associations: 2 socketed celts + 4 fragments; 2 socketed gouges and 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule + 1 fragment; 1 spearhead VI fragment; 1 copper cake + 25 metal lumps.
Description: Upper part missing; prominent mould marks; near the mouth of the socket, on each face, are three projecting knobs; the central one of each group is very prominent; standing not 2 mm; the others are less conspicuous. Casting flaw on side behind the loop.
Publications: Sussex Notes and Queries, VII, 78.