Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2633
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Cirencester, near,1908
Parish: Cirencester
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1908
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 56
Thickness (mm): 38
Weight (g): 258
Patina: Green
Other: Weight: 257.57 gms
Description: Squarish mouth. Heavy collar with moulding below. On face, 2 vertical ribs terminating at each end in small pellets: on one face 2 diagonal bars spring upwards from base of the ribs; on the other they spring downwards and outwards from a point 36mm below upper end of verticals. Rather crescentic blade; one angle bent.