Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, No. 1927-2456
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach Fen
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 80
Width (mm): 36
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 139
Patina: Greenish brown patina.
Other: Weight: 138.95 gms
Associations: Hoard of 60 pieces, Nos. 2451-2489: see socketed celt No. 2451.
Description: Squarish mouth. Faint moulding below roughly cast collar. Flaw-hole underneath loop.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, pp. 112-3,Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn., XXXVI, 56 ff.