Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Barrington,1870
Parish: Barrington
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 94
Width (mm): 39
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 219
Patina: Bright green patina generally and on the blade half. Some dark green in the grooves round neck. Turquoise blue inside.
Surface: Smooth and fairly shiny.
Other: Length: 93.5mm,Thickness: socket 36.5mm
Associations: Found with a gouge. According to V.C.H. I, p. 279, a second socketed axe was also found, it is in Oxford Ashmolean Museum.
Description: Three vertical ribs descending from a double moulding round the mouth. Blade chipped.
Publications: Mentioned and illustrated by Evans, page 117.