Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Horningsea,Nov, 1860
Parish: Horningsea
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1860
Length (mm): 119
Width (mm): 38
Edge (mm): 62
Thickness (mm): 42
Weight (g): 389
Patina: Several shades of brown patina.
Surface: Smooth and fairly shiny
Other: Width: edge 62mm; socket 37.5mm
Description: Ornamented with three double line ribs, running from under the rim of the mouth down the blade. The ribs terminate at either end in circles, each containing a pellet. On one side the 3 top circles are absent or obliterated. Loop broken.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 107. No catalogue.,Bronzes 51. The numbers to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 149, May 1884