Object: Socketed Celt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: City and County Museum, Lincoln, 1930
Site: England,Lincolnshire,West Halton,N. of road to Winterton, in the Old Cow Pasture close; found while ploughing on Mr. Burkill's land, near sand drain to Winteringham Haven,17th Dec. 1852
Parish: West Halton
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1852
Length (mm): 78
Width (mm): 37
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 37
Weight (g): 156
Patina: Dark green patina: grey green at fracture.
Other: Weight: 5 1/2 oz = 155.922 gms
Associations: 17 socketed celts + 3 other pieces of bronze (2? sword fragments; the ploughshare struck where they were all "candied" together. Another larger celt was found later and a jet of metal and a small broken speciment another time. 8 socketed celts, a jet and an oval fragment are in British Museum.
Publications: Archaeol. Journal X, 69-71, illus.,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, Hoard No. 91, pp. 113, 118, 120, 424, 467.,Is this identical with the hoard from ?Winteringham mentioned in the "Naturalist", 1908 pp. 141-2?