Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: Locality unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 130
Width (mm): 46
Edge (mm): 55
Thickness (mm): 45
Weight (g): 214
Patina: Dark brown patina and metal colour showing through.
Surface: Smooth and shiny. One corroded patch the size of a penny on one side. This is several shades of green.
Other: Width: edge 54.5mm; socket 45.5mm
Description: Five vertical ribs terminating in pellets. The two outer ribs are really the angles.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 105. No catalogue.,Bronzes 49. The numbers can be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology.",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, 148. May 1884