Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Saffron Walden Museum,CLXXIII,Given by Joseph Clarke
Site: England,Essex,Arkesden,near Chardwell Farm,while land-draining, 1872
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Arkesden
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 104
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 43
Weight (g): 279
Surface: Crusted round the edge.
Other: Weight: 279.2 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of about 60 pieces.
Publications: Trans. Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1873, Illustrations.