Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2457
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell,Reach Fen
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 92
Width (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 40
Weight (g): 252
Patina: Greenish-brown patina.
Other: Weight: 251.74 gms
Associations: Hoard of 60 objects, Nos. 2451-2489: See socketed celt No. 2451.
Description: Circular mouth. Neat collar with bevelled edge: fine moulding below. Marginal ribs.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 113,Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56, ff.