Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,C.H. Grinling, Esq.,17 Rectory Place, Woolwich, SE 18, 1920,Obtained from Joseph Fels Esq., owner of Basildon Farm.
Site: England,Essex,Billericay,Basildon Farm,1909
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Billericay
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1909
Length (mm): 53
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 40
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 53
Patina: Light and medium green patina.
Surface: Farily smooth, heavily encrusted and crushed.
Other: Weight: 53.15 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard consisting of 9 s. celts, a spear head, 2 gouges, portion of knife, etc. A socketed celt and an equal weight of rough ore now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquities, Stockholm.