Object: Socketed Celt
Classification: Socketed Celt (Looped)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Southend Museum, Prittlewell Priory, 721/1
Site: England,Essex,Vange,Primary School, Bull Road
Parish: Vange
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 89
Width (mm): 43
Edge (mm): 36
Surface: Heavily corroded in places.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Length: 3.5" = 88.9mm,Width: 1.7" outside edge of loop to outside of socket = 43.18mm; 1.4" cutting edge = 35.56mm
Associations: The rest of the hoard is in County Record Office, Chelmsford, except for socketed celt 721/2
Description: Socketed celt with side carrying loop cracked, and part of side missing. Corrosion has raise a knob immediately in centre of one face under rim of socket, but this does not occur on other side. No decoration. C. Square ended socket, 1.1" x 1.2"
Remarks: Prepared by D.G. Macleod, Assistant-in-Charge, Prittlewell Priory Museum, June 1958.