Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2458,H. Prigg, 1867
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Burwell,Reach Fen
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 72
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 120
Patina: Greenish brown patina.
Other: Weight: 120.49 gms
Associations: Hoard, Nos. 2451-2489: See socketed celt No. 2451.
Description: Square mouth with bevelled rim. Fine moulding below collar. Ribbon-like loop.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, pp. 112-3, Fig. 117,Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56, ff, fig. 2.