Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England,Sussex,Yapton,Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 53
Weight (g): 88
Patina: Dull green and brown.
Surface: Mostly smooth
Associations: 2 socketed celts + 4 fragments; 2 socketed gouges + 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule + 1 fragment; 1 spearhed VI fragment; 1 copper cake and 25 metal lumps.
Description: Cutting edge missing; a long narrow fracture, measuring 21 mm x 6 mm runs from this broken edge towards the socket. Both faces are much worn; one has three (possibly four) short ribs, the other (not shown in the drawing) has five distinguishable ribs. Prominent mould marks. Upper end is slightly crushed.
Publications: Sussex Notes + Queries