Object: Socketed Celt
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb 1929, Lent to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England, Sussex, Yapton, Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 40
Width (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 17
Weight (g): 95
Patina: apple-green on one side, green + - white on the other
Surface: smooth
Description: Fragment consists of the cutting edge of blade; Edge itself is blunt and broken; one end is recurved to an unusual extent; the socket part is slightly crushed; socket partly filled with metal encrustment
Publications: Sussex Notes & Queries VII. 78
Remarks: 2 socketed celts & 4 fragments; 2 socketed gouges & 1 fragment; 1 socketed knife fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule & 1 ferrule fragment; 1 spearhead VI fragment; 1 copper cake & 25 metal lumps.