Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Quy Fen,1849
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Stow-cum-quy
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1849
Length (mm): 111
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 57
Thickness (mm): 31
Weight (g): 220
Patina: Dark brown patina - some nut brown. Green inside and on loop.
Surface: Smooth and dull. One or two pits.
Other: Thickness: socket 30.5mm
Description: Octagonal neck though effect is rather spoilt by the cast marks.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 80. Catalogue lost.,Bronzes 36. Numbers to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 141, May 1884. Catalogue.