Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,Foster Bequest No. 44 (No. 47 is correct in Catalogue),Prehistoric Bronzes No. 91 (Catalogue is lost)
Site: England,Yorkshire,Holdernesse,Sproatley
Parish: Holdernesse
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 89
Width (mm): 41
Edge (mm): 49
Weight (g): 183
Patina: Green patina; some metal showing through, brown and bright green spots and a little bright blue.
Surface: Smooth and pitted in places.
Other: Width: edge 49mm; socket 41mm; inside socket 30.5mm
Description: Round mouth and square socket (very much injured). Base encircled by a projecting rim and a bead above it, from which springs the loop + 3 vertical ribs (badly defined) running down the faces.
Remarks: Labels: S. Proatley, Holderness 51.