Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum. No. 37.
Site: England, Shropshire, Little Wenlock, Wrekin Tenement 1834. alias Willow Moor, par. Little Wenlock, Locality unrecorded in Museum (in Mus. before 1881) but proved by its identification with the socketed celt from this site, of which Dukes gave a cast to the Sec. Antiquaries. 1834.
Parish: Little Wenlock
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 106
Width (mm): edge 53, socket 43
Thickness (mm): socket 40
Weight (g): 290.58
Surface: light brown, considerably scratched, golden bronze shows.
Associations: A hoard "lying together in a heap, cupable of being covered by a 1/2 bushel measure " consisting of this celt", a small number of Swords, a about 150 fragments of javelins, or spear-heads, with staves of decayed wood fastened in several of them." (Dukes, Arch.XXVI, 464-5, under "Wrekin Tenement.") Hartshorne, under "Willow Moor", gives "2-300" broken spears, 3 or 4 small Whetstones, a celt & a blade & handle of a dagger, broken, found near tumuli.
Description: Decoration much worn. Cast marks.
Publications: Arch. xxvi, 464-5; Arch. Jo. viii, 197, R. Lloyd Kenyon, Shrops. Arch. Trans. IV (2nd S.) 279.,  Hartshorne, Salop, Ant. pp. 89-98., Audin, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops. I, 203., Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., under "Little Wenlock" pp. 113, 234, 314, 336, 452, 465; "Wrekin Tenement", 285, 338, 465.
Remarks: Shrewsbury Museum Donations Book I records that on Oct. 1835, T.F. Dukes, Esq. presented a celt found near the Wrekin & a cast from a spearhead found at the same place in 1834. The latter is identical with that given to the Society of Antiquaries & with the specimen figured by Rev. G.H. Hartshorne, "Salopia Antiqua" (1841), pl. facing p. 96, N° 8 described with the Willow Moor, Willow Farm, or Wrekin Farm, hoard, in the parish of Little Wenlock, stated, however, to have been found in 1835. Hartshorne's figure of this celt shows no ornament, but the lines in the actual object are faint.