Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Chipping Sodbury,Found in an Earthwork,Get details from O.G.S. Crawford
Parish: Chipping Sodbury
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 66
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 30
Weight (g): 92
Patina: Beautiful glossy patina deep blue-green, worn off at edge.
Surface: Smooth. Excellent preservation, except chip in socket rim.
Other: Weight: 3 1/4 oz. = 92.14 gms
Description: Socket oblong with rounded angles. Tiny hole in side at A, a flaw in casting.
Publications: Exhibited by O.G.S. Crawford at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, 3rd May 1928
Remarks: The type has Irish affinities.