Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Mr W.H. King,(1889-94 Price Cat),(Stick on label:- "Royal Arch. Inst 62")
Site: England,Essex,Leigh
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): celt 82,overall 91.5
Width (mm): edge 35 socket 36
Thickness (mm): Socket 34.5
Weight (g): 178.06
Patina: medium green
Surface: rough owing to encrustment. Light earth on the outside. Varnished all over.
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard:- 4 Socketed Celts, Lump of Metal, part of a chisel or gouge socket, Edge of a socketed celt, & part of a spearhead (besides that referred to above).
Description: Part of a spearhead (point end) embedded & firmly fixed in the socket - also some encrusted metal.